That's not entirely true. There is a decreasing rate of return from the number of spindles, as the overhead exceeds the benefits.
I'd wager the increase was as much from caching, disk speed and controller throughput as anything else. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:53 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > > Yeah but that's not necessarily because it was a SAN. If you > double the > number of disks the databases are on for example your going to see a > performance increase, whether it's DAS or SAN. > > > Steve Evans > SDSU Foundation > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:54 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > Just to add my 2 bits > > We moved our Exchange 5.5 running on win2k from direct attached disk > raid 5 to a IBM ESS 2105 Shark, and we saw about 300 to 400% > performance > increase. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rosales, Mario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:19 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange and SAN > > Clarification Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rosales, Mario > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:17 AM > To: 'Exchange Discussions' > Subject: Exchange and SAN > > > Has anyone ran Exchange in a SAN, and were there any issues with it? > I've > always had a raid array attached to it which could be the > same thing but > did > not know if there were any major differences? Any help would be > appreciate > it. > > Thanks, > Mario > > > ************************************************************** > ********** > *** > The contents of this communication are intended only for the > addressee > and > may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you > are not the > intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this > communication and notify the sender. Opinions, conclusions and other > information in this communication that do not relate to the official > business of my company shall be understood as neither given > nor endorsed > by > it. > ************************************************************** > ********** > *** > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=& lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
