On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He's already using RAID0, which should be the best performance of RAID since > it doesn't have to use any parity blocks/disks right?
Yes, I missed that. He could still improve the throughput by adding more disks. > And from what I've > seen about SSD (can't find a link now) filesystems haven't caught up to it > to make a real difference with one over the other. They do have much lower > powser usage though (which is why they find their way into laptops). We're talking high-end SSD, not the stuff they put in laptops. It's fast, and you can make a RAID array of them, and it's within a reasonable price range now. A ton of RAM in the server might help too. - Perrin