Sam wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean Rietze wrote:
>
> > So, when I order these machines my question remains the same. Do we run the queue
> > on one fast 10,000 RPM
> > SCSI drive or do we go with mulitple heads by using a raid controller card running
> > 3 disks on Raid 0? Does it
> > matter? I figure with the alteon we will easily be able to handle the load by just
> > adding a front-end machine if
> > needed.
>
> I'd say go with multiple disks and RAID. With everything happening on one
> box, you're going to have a lot of concurrency, and multiple spindles will
> help things a lot.
Have to agree. The addition of RAID to my server helped me a lot. Couple the RAID
configuration with 10k RPM disks and controller with plenty of RAM on it, and you've
got
a scorcher.
