Can SAPDB handle databases up to 500 GB and which hardware is required?

[Horst Rohrweck]

Hi all,   I’ve got a project where I have to design a database with an approximately size of 500 GB and possibly even more. The hardware which I planned for the database is an Intel Server Board equipped with 8 GB of DDR RAM, two Intel Xeon processors with 2,8 GHz and an Intel RAID Controller (PCI 64) with U320-SCSI IBM harddisks in a RAID 5 compound structure. As OS I plan to use Linux with a modified 2.4 kernel. Does anyone have experiences with database sizes like this? Is the hardware of my database machine sufficient to guarantee fast response times of queries (mainly simple SELECT statements)? Thanks in advance, Horst   ************************************ *  Horst Rohrweck                  * *  software engineer               * *  itsoft Software GMBH            * ************************************ * Web: www.itsoft.at               * *                                  * * Ennserstrasse 154                * * A-4407 Dietach                   * *                                  * * Tel.: +43.7252.39002.207         * * Fax.: +43.7252.39039.400         * *                                  * * eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  * *                                  * * ICQ: 7936388                     * * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]       * * Yahoo: hrohrweck                 * ************************************