Alexander, > Hmmm. Seems to me that this setup would be better than one RAID5 with three > 36Gb disks, wouldn't you think so? With one RAID5 array, I would still have > the data and the WAL on one volume...
Definitely. As I've said, my experience with RAID5 is that with less than 5 disks, it performs around 40% of a single scsi disk for large read-write operation on Postgres. If you have only 3 disks, I'd advocate one disk for WAL and one RAID 1 array for the database. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html