Thanks Scott, I'll check it out! FYI - I'm doing research for my company (note that the email addr I'm using now is personal and *not* affiliated w/ my employer) in regards to recommending (and possibly re-selling) FDE solutions to my employer's customers, so any info I can glean would be helpful wrt finding the best solutions for customers, depending on context. If anyone has any thoughts/feedback, please let me know.
G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott S" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [FDE] FDE + production DBMS box > Hi Garrett, > > The answer to your question very simple, there is no performance impact > or any other confideration (like special architecture or implementation > requirements) when using an enterprise FDE hard hard. From the > perspective of the system, RAID controller, or DBMS, it is like any > other hard drive. Therefore, the FDE hard drive performs in accordance to > it's performance specifications: RPMs and I/O throughput. > > Here is a video of a performance demo from Seagate that highlights this > fact: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUixGDNEkkw > > scott > > On Thu, 7 May 2009, Garrett M. Groff wrote: > >> Any experience from anyone on the impact of FDE on production systems >> running a DBMS (like SQL Server)? Seems like a hardware-based FDE would >> be ideal in this case (to mitigate the performance drain), except that >> companies typically use a RAID configuration on the box hosting the >> DBMS. Any experience or suggestions, esp when technologies like RAID are >> used? >> >> Thanks, >> G >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FDE mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde >> > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
