Re: Looking for a cheap upgrade (RAID)

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:53, Chad Thompson wrote:
> I have a server on a standard pc right now.
> PIII 700, 1Gig ram (SD), 40 Gig IDE, RedHat 8.0, PostgreSQL 7.3.1
>
> The database has 3 tables that just broke 10 million tuples (yeah, i think
> im entering in to the world of real databases ;-)
> Its primarly bulk (copy) inserts and queries, rarely an update.
>
> I am looking at moving this to a P4 2.4G, 2 Gig Ram(DDR), RedHat 8,
> PostgreSQL 7.3.latest
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How big do you expect the database to get?

If I may be a contrarian, if under 70GB, then why not just get a 72GB
10K RPM SCSI drive ($160) and a SCSI 160 card?  OS, swap, input files,
etc, can go on a 7200RPM IDE drive.

Much fewer moving parts than RAID, so more reliable...

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