About the HD's mentioned in OP, i notice there are now 10k rpm and 15k rpm ordinary satas available, would these be much better than the 7500 rpm ones if we cannot afford SSD?
About the HD's mentioned in OP, i notice there are now 10k rpm and 15k rpm ordinary satas available, would these be much better than the 7500 rpm ones if we cannot afford SSD?
I think so, I run 10k and it's definitely a level above 7200. Just make sure you keep it cool (especially the 15k). Might want to check reliability on 15k drives though, I haven't bought any recently but I think sometimes there's a bit more fear of reliability with the high speed drives (in servers it doesn't matter so much since there's always redundancy in the RAID) - this might not be an issue anymore though. 15k drives also use more power. To be honest it might be more worthwhile running some 10K drives in a raid 1 or 10 instead, depending on the cost of each and your total budget. But I definitely recommend 10k over 7200.
If you can afford 10K/15K RPM drives... you can also afford a cheap SSD.
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Yes but the cheaper SSD's are the small capacity ones. What use is 30gb?
well you can't install OS+DB on that but it's enough for any DB alone anyway.
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Asus n73Sv: i7 @2-2.9GHz Sandy Bridge (2630QM), 6144Mb DDR3-1333, 500Gb + ssd snvp325 64Gb, Win7 HP 64.
So basically with a SSD drive u need to run 2 hard drives?
in most cases yes. but does it make any problem? ssd for OS, common soft and Postgre and a usuall HDD for games, music, videos etc.
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Asus n73Sv: i7 @2-2.9GHz Sandy Bridge (2630QM), 6144Mb DDR3-1333, 500Gb + ssd snvp325 64Gb, Win7 HP 64.
But u just said u cant install OS+DB on it when postgre IS the db is it not?
i just meant that 30Gbs will in most cases not be enough. if you have at least 60, this is good for average usage for OS+soft+postgre base.
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Asus n73Sv: i7 @2-2.9GHz Sandy Bridge (2630QM), 6144Mb DDR3-1333, 500Gb + ssd snvp325 64Gb, Win7 HP 64.
Right so i could spend £120 on a velociraptor and use it for everything or spend £25 on a 250gb seagate sata and £90 on 64gb SSD drive and run OS and all poker stuff on the SSD and all other storage on the sata drive?