Re: [GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-08-01 Thread Francisco J Reyes
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The data will be stored on an external raid, SCSI based 2.5TB with IDE disks. Configured as 1 large volume, RAID5. ( We already have this hardware) How come you did not go with SCSI disks? Specially 15K ones. Performance will be much better with

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-07-28 Thread psql-mail
Ron thank you for your comments, sorry of the slow response - i actually replied to you on saturday but i think the list was having trouble again?! Your questions are answered below... On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As mentioned previously I have a large text database

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 11:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron thank you for your comments, sorry of the slow response - i actually replied to you on saturday but i think the list was having trouble again?! Your questions are answered below... On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-07-25 Thread psql-mail
As mentioned previously I have a large text database with upwards of 40GB of data and 8 million tuples. The time has come to buy some real hardware for it. Having read around the subject online I see the general idea is to get as much memory and the fastest I/O possible. The buget for the

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 07:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As mentioned previously I have a large text database with upwards of 40GB of data and 8 million tuples. The time has come to buy some real hardware for it. Having read around the subject online I see the general idea is to get as