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Old 04-18-2008, 11:47 AM
Andrew Hood
 
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Default Re: Hardware purchase question

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> An Opteron, properly tuned with PostgreSQL will always beat a Xeon
> in terms of raw cpu.
>
> RAID 10 will typically always outperform RAID 5 with the same HD config.
>
> Fibre channel in general will always beat a normal (especially an LSI)
> raid.
>
> Dell's suck for PostgreSQL.


Does anyone have any OS recommendations/experiences for PostgreSQL on
Opteron?

Thanks,
Andrew

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