If you are talking about the WD Raptor's -- stay away. Out of 6 we used, 3 failed. Do a few googles and you'll hear the same from other users.
On the other hand, the do fly. Raid10 them them on a 3ware 9500 and you'll be amazed. On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:06:10 -0800, Larry Lowry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For cost reasons I use SATA. Does the machine already > have a SCSI card in it? If so I would use SCSI. If not > I would give one of the newer 10k SATA drives a spin. > > Larry > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fagyal Csongor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:03 PM > Subject: Low-end SATA vs. SCSI > > > Hi List, > > > > I am putting in a separate disk for our MySQL (4.1.7) server. I have > > some MyISAM, some InnoDB tables. Lots of reads, lots of writes (mostly > > atomic ones, insert/update one row), a few million rows per table, > > approx. 100-400 queries per second. > > > > What would you say is better (with respect to performance): a small SCSI > > disk (say 18G, 10kRPM) or a bigger SATA (say 120G, 7200RPM)? > > > > Thank you for your feeback, > > - Csongor > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
