At 8:05 PM +0100 11/18/05, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>
>we're going to buy new hardware for an postgresql database server.
>High availability is important, so I'm thinking of an
>Athlon System w/ 2GB RAM and UW-SCSI RAID.
>
>But what hardware should I use ?
>And what RAID configuration would be the best ?
>
Check out the long-running (still going) thread on the pgsql-performance list:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-11/threads.php
A lot of great about HW/OS there. Of course it really comes down to
what you'll be using PG for.