Re: [GENERAL] Asking for assistance in determining storage requirements

2009-07-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 11:15 -0400, Chris Barnes wrote: We would like to get as much performance from our file systems as possible. Then avoid RAID 5. Raid 10 is a pretty good option for most loads. Actually, RAID 5 is quite decent for read-mostly large volume

Re: [GENERAL] Asking for assistance in determining storage requirements

2009-07-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Chris Barnescompuguruchrisbar...@hotmail.com wrote: You assistance is appreciated. I have question regarding disk storage for postgres servers We are thinking long term about scalable storage and performance and would like some advise or feedback about what

Re: [GENERAL] Asking for assistance in determining storage requirements

2009-07-16 Thread Alan McKay
No other takers on this one? I'm wondering what exactly direct attached storage entails? At PG Con I heard a lot about using only direct-attached storage, and not a SAN. Are there numbers to back this up? Does fibre-channel count as direct-attached storage? I'm thinking it would. What

[GENERAL] Asking for assistance in determining storage requirements

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Barnes
You assistance is appreciated. I have question regarding disk storage for postgres servers We are thinking long term about scalable storage and performance and would like some advise or feedback about what other people are using. We would like to get as much performance from our file

Re: [GENERAL] Asking for assistance in determining storage requirements

2009-07-09 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Chris Barnescompuguruchrisbar...@hotmail.com wrote: We are curious about using SAN with fiber channel hba and if anyone else uses this technology. We would also like to know if people have preference to the level of raid with/out striping. I used SurfRAID