Hi George, SSD prices should be quite affordable now. A 128 GB SSD costs about USD 400, while a 64 GB priced at around USD 250. With the poor cache performance of Windows (which caused a relatively higher amount of disk access), you should notice a great performance improvement if you migrate to SSD.
Regards, Raymond. On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 15:38 -0500, George Woltman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Raymond Fung <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you give us some idea on the amount of data store maintained ? Say, > > number of records in the database, and approx. record size. Also, how > > much would a DB dump occupies ? > > Scott is really the best person to answer this question. > > The database is 35GB, growing at roughly 1GB per quarter. > > I have no idea how much disk space is needed for the many > log files that are generated. > > > Hard disk are just so cheap these days, that you can just ignore RAID > > 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 50 at all and just mirror all your hard disks (RAID 1) > > plus hot spare. You may even consider move to SSD (solid state disks), > > which have a much longer life span (and faster access time) than any > > mechanical hard disks. > > I'm not an expert on which RAID would be best. > > I think SSD disks are too expensive. We loaded up on memory to keep > lots of DB data in fast access RAM. > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime > _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
