RE: A new Machine

2004-08-23 Thread christopher . l . hood
he message. -Original Message- From: Egor Egorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 7:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A new Machine "Info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to = &g

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-23 Thread Egor Egorov
"Info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to = > rob the piggy bank and build a new linux mysql server. This seem to be a good fruit of your repentance. :) > I'm not rich, but what hardware and distro do you experts suggest? (My =

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-22 Thread Mike Wexler
Chris McKeever wrote: RAID 5 is the wrong answer. If reliability is a big deal do mirroring. Otherwise get as much memory as you can afford and use any money left over to get the fastest disk drives you can afford. If you have multiple disks, spread things between different drives. OS on on

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-22 Thread Chris McKeever
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:40:24 -0700, Mike Wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris McKeever wrote: > > >On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:18:06 -0700, Info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to rob the > >>piggy bank and build a new linu

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-22 Thread Mike Wexler
Chris McKeever wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:18:06 -0700, Info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to rob the piggy bank and build a new linux mysql server. Here's my problem: I have, at present, two rather large databases. (A: 4Mil

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-21 Thread Larry Lowry
urday, August 21, 2004 1:19 PM Subject: Re: A new Machine > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:18:06 -0700, Info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to rob the piggy bank and build a new linux mysql server. Here's

Re: A new Machine

2004-08-21 Thread Chris McKeever
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:18:06 -0700, Info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After 2 days in Microsoft HELL with my SQLsvr databases, I'm ready to rob the piggy > bank and build a new linux mysql server. Here's my problem: I have, at present, > two rather large databases. (A: 4Million records in one