Re: [GENERAL] How to make a REALLY FAST db server?

[Colin 't Hart]

"Shaun Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > - Disk:  SCSI Raid 1+0
>
> To really eek out as much speed as possible here, you'll want 10k RPM
> Ultra-160 Fibre Channel SCSI drives with a dedicated hardware raid
> controller.  If have more reads than writes, you may want to use Raid 5
> instead.

15k RPM drives are available from Seagate and IBM. The Seagate drives
are slightly faster.


Cheers,

Colin



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