Re: Hardware advice for scalable warehouse db

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Schnabel <schnabelr(at)missouri(dot)edu>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, chris <chricki(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hardware advice for scalable warehouse db
Date: 2011-07-15 18:01:12
Message-ID: CAOR=d=3eh3ryskDNFgwC6B-9=xcGnee+577BZ_VxsAqc0DHhXg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Robert Schnabel
<schnabelr(at)missouri(dot)edu> wrote:
> I'm curious what people think of these:
> http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sas_cables_enclosures/scsase166g.asp
>
> I currently have my database on two of these and for my purpose they seem to
> be fine and are quite a bit less expensive than the Dell MD1000.  I actually
> have three more of the 3G versions with expanders for mass storage arrays
> (RAID0) and haven't had any issues with them in the three years I've had
> them.

I have a co-worker who's familiar with them and they seem a lot like
the 16 drive units we use from Aberdeen, which fully outfitted with
15k SAS drives run $5k to $8k depending on the drives etc.

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