Re: Hardware for PostgreSQL

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>> You're likely better off (performance-wise) putting it on the same disk
>>> as the database itself if that one has better RAID, for example.
>> I'm thinking along the lines of since nothing much writes to the OS
>> Disk, I should(keyword) be safe.
>
> Unless it's *always* in the cache (not so likely), reads will also move
> the heads...

And if you aren't mounted noatime, reads will also cause a write.

Cheers,
Steve