Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-28 Thread Greg Smith
On 05/16/2012 01:01 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: Although your assertion 100% supported by intel's marketing numbers, there are some contradicting numbers out there that show the drives offering pretty similar performance. For example, look here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4902/intel-ssd-710-200

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-16 Thread Alejandro Carrillo
¿Wizard Merlin? > > De: Merlin Moncure >Para: David Boreham >CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org >Enviado: Miércoles 16 de Mayo de 2012 13:53 >Asunto: Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection > >On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:45 PM, David Boreham w

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-16 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:45 PM, David Boreham wrote: > On 5/16/2012 11:01 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> >> Although your assertion 100% supported by intel's marketing numbers, >> there are some contradicting numbers out there that show the drives >> offering pretty similar performance.  For examp

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-16 Thread David Boreham
On 5/16/2012 11:01 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: Although your assertion 100% supported by intel's marketing numbers, there are some contradicting numbers out there that show the drives offering pretty similar performance. For example, look here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4902/intel-ssd-710-200g

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-16 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM, David Boreham wrote: > On 5/15/2012 12:16 PM, Rosser Schwarz wrote: >> >> As the other posters in this thread have said, your best bet is >> probably the Intel 710 series drives, though I'd still expect some >> 320-series drives in a RAID configuration to still be

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-15 Thread David Boreham
On 5/15/2012 12:16 PM, Rosser Schwarz wrote: As the other posters in this thread have said, your best bet is probably the Intel 710 series drives, though I'd still expect some 320-series drives in a RAID configuration to still be pretty stupendously fast. One thing to mention is that the 710 are

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-15 Thread Rosser Schwarz
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Віталій Тимчишин wrote: > We are using Areca controller with BBU. So as for me, question is: Can 520 > series be set up to handle fsyncs correctly? No. The cause for capacitors on SSD logic boards is that fsyncs aren't flushed to NAND media, and hence persisted,

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-15 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:08 PM, David Boreham wrote: >> We've reached to the point when we would like to try SSDs. We've got a >> central DB currently 414 GB in size and increasing. Working set does not fit >> into our 96GB RAM server anymore. >> So, the main question is what to take. Here what

Re: [PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-15 Thread David Boreham
On 5/15/2012 9:21 AM, Віталій Тимчишин wrote: We've reached to the point when we would like to try SSDs. We've got a central DB currently 414 GB in size and increasing. Working set does not fit into our 96GB RAM server anymore. So, the main question is what to take. Here what we've got: 1) I

[PERFORM] SSD selection

2012-05-15 Thread Віталій Тимчишин
Hello, all. We've reached to the point when we would like to try SSDs. We've got a central DB currently 414 GB in size and increasing. Working set does not fit into our 96GB RAM server anymore. So, the main question is what to take. Here what we've got: 1) Intel 320. Good, but slower then current