Re: Hardware suggestions for Linux/PGSQL server

>Just one more piece of advice, you might want to look into a good battery
>backed cache hardware RAID controller.  They work quite well for heavily
>updated databases.  The more drives you throw at the RAID array the faster
>it will be.

I've seen this list often recommended such a setup.  We'll probably 
get battery-backed write cache and start out with a 4 disk RAID 10 
array.  Then add more disks and change RAID 5 if more read 
performance is needed.

Thanks,
- Jeff
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Jeff Bohmer
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