Re: [GENERAL] SAS Raid10 vs SATA II Raid10 - many small reads and writes

2010-03-11 Thread Greg Smith
Phillip Berry wrote: Hardware raid controller for both options, but I'm not sure what brand (yet). The reason you won't ever find a good general answer to this question is that it's so close that you need to know the exact controller cards and the disks used in each situation to have any hope

Re: [GENERAL] SAS Raid10 vs SATA II Raid10 - many small reads and writes

2010-03-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thursday, March 11, 2010, Phillip Berry wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 18:32:41 Scott Marlowe wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Phillip Berry >> >> wrote: >> > Hi Everyone, >> > >> > We're in the market for a new DB server to replace our current one (yes >> > it's one of *those*

Re: [GENERAL] SAS Raid10 vs SATA II Raid10 - many small reads and writes

2010-03-10 Thread Phillip Berry
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 18:32:41 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Phillip Berry > > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > We're in the market for a new DB server to replace our current one (yes > > it's one of *those* questions) ;). > > > > It'll have quad core Xeons, 36GB RAM

Re: [GENERAL] SAS Raid10 vs SATA II Raid10 - many small reads and writes

2010-03-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Phillip Berry wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > We're in the market for a new DB server to replace our current one (yes it's > one of *those* > questions) ;). > > It'll have quad core Xeons, 36GB RAM and some sort of Raid 10 configuration. > > Our provider is pushing us t

[GENERAL] SAS Raid10 vs SATA II Raid10 - many small reads and writes

2010-03-09 Thread Phillip Berry
Hi Everyone, We're in the market for a new DB server to replace our current one (yes it's one of *those* questions) ;). It'll have quad core Xeons, 36GB RAM and some sort of Raid 10 configuration. Our provider is pushing us towards 6 x SATA II disks in a Raid 10 configuration or 4 x SAS disks