Re: Maximum Possible Insert Performance?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> William,
> 
> 
>>When my current job batch is done, I'll save a copy of the dir and give
>>the WAL on ramdrive a test. And perhaps even buy a Sandisk at the local
>>store and run that through the hooper.
> 
> 
> We'll be interested in the results.   The Sandisk won't be much of a 
> performance test; last I checked, their access speed was about 1/2 that of a 
> fast SCSI drive.   But it could be a feasability test for the more expensive 
> RAMdrive approach.
> 


The SanDisks do seem a bit pokey at 16MBps. On the otherhand, you could 
get 4 of these suckers, put them in a mega-RAID-0 stripe for 64MBps. You 
shouldn't need to do mirroring with a solid state drive.

Time to Google up some more solid state drive vendors.