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

2002-10-04 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 busy

raid vs splitting the database

2002-10-03 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
sql, query I have a dilemma and maybe you can help. I'm wanting to improve my disk performance and I'm wondering if I should go with Raid 10 or if I should simply mirror the drives so that I have redundancy and then put some of my tables on one drive and some on the other. Or the

RE: raid vs splitting the database

2002-10-03 Thread Andrew Braithwaite
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: raid vs splitting the database sql, query I have a dilemma and maybe you can help. I'm wanting to improve my disk performance and I'm wondering if I should go with Raid 10 or if I should simply mirror the drives so that I have redundancy and then put some of my