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From Colin 't Hart
Subject Re: How to make a REALLY FAST db server?
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In response to Re: How to make a REALLY FAST db server?  (Shaun Thomas <sthomas@townnews.com>)
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"Shaun Thomas" <sthomas@townnews.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0109101410050.1809-100000@hamster.lee.net...
> > - Disk:  SCSI Raid 1+0
>
> To really eek out as much speed as possible here, you'll want 10k RPM
> Ultra-160 Fibre Channel SCSI drives with a dedicated hardware raid
> controller.  If have more reads than writes, you may want to use Raid 5
> instead.

15k RPM drives are available from Seagate and IBM. The Seagate drives
are slightly faster.


Cheers,

Colin

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