Re: [GENERAL] Hardware recommendations?

2016-11-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/2/2016 3:01 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: >> >> After much cogitation I eventually went RAID-less. Why? The only option >> for hardware RAID was SAS SSDs and given that they are not built on >> electro-mechanical

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware recommendations?

2016-11-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/2/2016 3:01 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: After much cogitation I eventually went RAID-less. Why? The only option for hardware RAID was SAS SSDs and given that they are not built on electro-mechanical spinning-rust technology it seemed like the RAID card was just another point of solid-state

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware recommendations?

2016-11-02 Thread Steve Crawford
After much cogitation I eventually went RAID-less. Why? The only option for hardware RAID was SAS SSDs and given that they are not built on electro-mechanical spinning-rust technology it seemed like the RAID card was just another point of solid-state failure. I combined that with the fact that the

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware recommendations?

2016-11-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On 11/02/2016 10:03 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: >> >> I'm looking for generic advice on hardware to use for "mid-sized" >> postgresql servers, $5k or a bit more. >> >> There are several good documents from the 9.0 era,

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware recommendations?

2016-11-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 11/02/2016 10:03 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: I'm looking for generic advice on hardware to use for "mid-sized" postgresql servers, $5k or a bit more. There are several good documents from the 9.0 era, but hardware has moved on since then, particularly with changes in SSD pricing. Has anyone

[GENERAL] Hardware recommendations?

2016-11-02 Thread Steve Atkins
I'm looking for generic advice on hardware to use for "mid-sized" postgresql servers, $5k or a bit more. There are several good documents from the 9.0 era, but hardware has moved on since then, particularly with changes in SSD pricing. Has anyone seen a more recent discussion of what someone

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware recommendations

2004-10-01 Thread Barry S
Gentoo, in my opinion, makes a poor production platform. Others have had success with it, but I would recommend 1 of the big 3 'stable' linux platforms out there: * RHES * SUSE * Debian As far as hardware goes, IBM has some nice x86 intro servers that fit into that price catagory. -Barry John

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware Recommendations

2001-07-26 Thread Justin Clift
Hi all, One of my personal rules is that whenever someone says they're going to get a 10K RPM SCSI drive, I always tell them to go 2 x 10K RPM SCSI drives (half the size each) and do RAID 0. Or, preferably go 3 x and do RAID 5. My point is that 10K RPM drives are nice, but more is better (and