Purchase solid equipment and fairly current machines.
We buy referbished system at a fraction of the cost of new.
For example;
IBM 3650 with 8 x 300g SAS drives and controller, 4 slot dual with the following specs. 16 gb memory.
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz
cache size : 4096 KB
This will probably cost ~ between $5000 & $8000
Set the drives up raid 1 and 5 for os/logs and data and global hotspare. Some prefer raid 10 if you have lots of drives.
This should give you 300g for os/logs and 600g for data.
Chris
> From: gil.nunes.resende@gmail.com
> Subject: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hardware
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:01:29 -0700
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
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> Hi,
>
> We are developing a web application that will work on Postgresql. My
> doubt is about the hardware that I can use for postgresql.
>
> What HW is more important to postgresql performance?
> Assuming that the database will have some load, what hardware must i
> buy?
>
>
> Thanks
> Best regards
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