We need to upgrade a postgres server. I'm not tied to these specific alternatives, but I'm curious to get feedback on their general qualities.

SCSI
  dual xeon 5120, 8GB ECC
  8*73GB SCSI 15k drives (PERC 5/i)
  (dell poweredge 2900)

SATA
  dual opteron 275, 8GB ECC
  24*320GB SATA II 7.2k drives (2*12way 3ware cards)
  (generic vendor)

Both boxes are about $8k running ubuntu. We're planning to setup with raid10. Our main requirement is highest TPS (focused on a lot of INSERTS).

Question: will 8*15k SCSI drives outperform 24*7K SATA II drives?

-jay

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