On Tuesday 11 July 2006 04:18 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: > My understanding is that SCSI has a faster transfer rate, for > transferring large files. A busy database needs really fast access, > for making numerous fast calls all over the disk. Two different, > unrelated things. > > I am more than willing to be called Wrong, slapped, and cast from a > bridge.
Hmm, not sure if the question at hand is being answered. The topics I've seen so far seem to indicate why SCSI is fast. However, the original question was more along the lines of "Does it matter with regards to database performance?". From what I know of MySQL, not really, because MySQL does a good amount of work in memory. The only time I'd see disk access being a factor is if you had a large mass of swap/virtual memory. Now one place where I'm sure it would matter is if you were doing a substantial amount of logging, or db dumping to disk. Then yes, you'd want a nice fast disk at that point. -- Chris White PHP Programmer/DBlowMeAway Interfuel -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
