On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:44 PM, David Rees <dree...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:37 PM, David Boreham <david_l...@boreham.org> wrote: >> You might want to evaluate the performance you can achieve with a single-SSD >> (use several for capacity by all means) before considering a RAID card + SSD >> solution. >> Again I bet it depends on the application but our experience with the older >> Intel 710 series is that their performance out-runs the CPU, at least under >> our PG workload. > > How many people are using a single enterprise grade SSD for production > without RAID? I've had a few consumer grade SSDs brick themselves - > but are the enterprise grade SSDs, like the new Intel S3700 which you > can get in sizes up to 800GB, reliable enough to run as a single drive > without RAID1? The performance of one is definitely good enough for > most medium sized workloads without the complexity of a BBU RAID and > multiple spinning disks...
I would still at least run two in software RAID-1 for reliability. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
