mike thomas wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I am running mysql on linux (redhat 6.2) using a regular 18Gb
> EIDI hard drive. Does anyone know how much (ball park figure) a
> SCSI hard drive would speed up selects and inserts?
This is a how long is a piece of string question .....
EIDE disks have nearly the same data transfer rates as SCSI drives.
but
SCSI drives have nearly twice the seek-time performance - or their
average seek time is twice as good.
So it depends on how many seeks a query takes to complete that will
determine any performance increase. Each query will be atleast two IIRC
from the manual - which has a section on Disk performance.
If you are serious about performance go SCSI.
Greg
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Michael Thomas
> abcXyz.com
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