AMD or Intel?

[Palle Girgensohn]

--On torsdag, torsdag 13 sep 2007 19.44.50 -0400 Francisco Reyes 
<lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn writes:
>
>> Presently ~pgsql/data has a 16 GB footprint.
>
> If you can put 4GB or better in your machine you should do well.
> Specially since you mentioned you are mostly read with relatively small
> amount of writes.
>
>> The growth is rather slow,  around a percent per week

Sorry, my mistake, more like a percent per day  at the moment...

We are planning about 16 GB RAM, actually. Maybe it is overkill?

> What controller are you getting?
> We have a 3ware SATA controller with RAID6 and it performs pretty well.
> Based on what you wrote SATA RAID should be enough for your load and
> usage pattern.
>
> Obviously if you can afford SCSI/SAS performance will likely be even
> better. However make sure you can get management program for the
> controller. At the very least some type of notification if the raid is
> degraded.

We will probably go for SCSI. HP DL380 with "HP SmartArray", aka ciss.