Re: raid vs splitting the database

2002-10-04 Thread walt
Brent Baisley wrote: > Well, there is the ideal setup, which requires intimate knowledge of the > database, lots of disks and extra administration. And then there is the > easy setup. Ideally you don't want to have any "hot" disks which will > cause contention. This requires you to place your bu

Re: raid vs splitting the database

2002-10-04 Thread Brent Baisley
Well, there is the ideal setup, which requires intimate knowledge of the database, lots of disks and extra administration. And then there is the easy setup. Ideally you don't want to have any "hot" disks which will cause contention. This requires you to place your busy tables (read or write)

RE: raid vs splitting the database

2002-10-03 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
Hi, In my experience (assuming that you are using mysql for all of these operations) the best way is to separate your tables into read-heavy and write heavy and put each into separate databases. Put the write-heavy logs database onto a separate disk/spindle and use delayed inserts (so that the a