Re: [GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:43 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > nabble.30.miller_2...@spamgourmet.com wrote: >> >> The database server is a quad core machine, so it sounds as though >> software RAID should work fine for the present setup. However, it >> sounds as though I should put some money into a hardw

Re: [GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to nabble.30.miller_2...@spamgourmet.com: > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Greg Stark wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Scott Marlowe > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> $750 is about what a decent RAID controller would cost you, but again > >>> it's likely that given your bulk impo

Re: [GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-10 Thread John R Pierce
nabble.30.miller_2...@spamgourmet.com wrote: The database server is a quad core machine, so it sounds as though software RAID should work fine for the present setup. However, it sounds as though I should put some money into a hardware RAID controller if the database becomes more active. I had ass

Re: [GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-10 Thread nabble . 30 . miller_2555
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Greg Stark wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Scott Marlowe >> wrote: >>> >>> $750 is about what a decent RAID controller would cost you, but again >>> it's likely that given your bulk import scenario,  you're probably ok >>> without one.  In this instance

Re: [GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Greg Stark wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> >> $750 is about what a decent RAID controller would cost you, but again >> it's likely that given your bulk import scenario,  you're probably ok >> without one.  In this instance, you're pr

Re: [GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-09 Thread Greg Stark
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > $750 is about what a decent RAID controller would cost you, but again > it's likely that given your bulk import scenario,  you're probably ok > without one.  In this instance, you're probably best off with software > RAID than a cheap RAID c

Re: [GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:40 PM, wrote: > Hi - > > I'm running Postgres v8.3 on Fedora 10 (home machine - x86_64 > architecture). After realizing that the storage requirements of one of > my databases will exceed 4Tb, I wanted to see if anyone had any > suggestions as to hardware setup that works w

[GENERAL] Database storage

2009-07-09 Thread nabble . 30 . miller_2555
Hi - I'm running Postgres v8.3 on Fedora 10 (home machine - x86_64 architecture). After realizing that the storage requirements of one of my databases will exceed 4Tb, I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions as to hardware setup that works well with Postgres running on Linux. I have partitio