Re: Solid State Drives with PG

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Solid State Drives with PG
Date: 2010-04-07 21:08:42
Message-ID: 4BBCF45A.2060600@hogranch.com
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Vick Khera wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> except that the fault tolerance issue isn't worked out yet.
>>
>
> Yep. I do not want to be the guy doing the product testing to see if
> they're suitable for a high-write DB load.
>
>

all the enterprise SAN guys I've talked with say the Intel x25 drives
are consumer junk, about the only thing they will use is STEC Zeus, and
even then they mirror them. These are SAS or FC, not SATA, so write
barriers are well behaved (assuming your OS doesn't toss them like
<cough>LVM</cough>)

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