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...with solutions that won't solve our problem. And our budget is fairly limited. Is there a public library somewhere of disk subsystems and their performance figures? Done with some semblance of a standard benchmark? One benchmark I am partial to is this one : http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2009/Greg_Smith_Hardware_Benchmarking_notes#dd_test One thing I am thinking of in the immediate term is taking the RAID5 + hot spare and converting it to RAID10 with the same amount of storage. Will that perform much better? In general we are planning to move away from RAID5 toward RAID10. We also h...