> FWIW, our newer disk cabinet with faster SCSI controllers and higher disk RPM > (but fewer spindles) blows away the older one that has 2-3 times the spindles. :-)
> but 36 GB drives that cost a lot less, and that are a lot faster, and last a lot longer It's actually hard to think that a shop would NOT be mirrored/RAIDed these days, so the question of a big drive dying becomes moot, and I'd be suprised if the 36gb drives are actually faster than larger ones .. Also, besides single drive speed/seek times, etc, I'd like to see some sort of "standard" benchmark test, like this: "we tested 12 of these 36gb drives using RAID 0+1 (striping and mirroring), for a total logical volume size of 216gb (6*36), with a combined seek rate of X, and were able to perform X transactions per second using (insert your DB of choice here)" ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
