Re: [PERFORM] Small DB Server Advice

2008-02-13 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: (https://secure.dnuk.com/systems/r325hs-1u.php?configuration=7766) 4 x 147GB 15000 rpm SCSI in RAID 10 with 320-1 RAID CARD + 64MB cache BBU That's running the LSI Megaraid SCSI controller. Those are solid but not the best performers in thei

Re: [PERFORM] Small DB Server Advice

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: 4 x 147GB 15000 rpm SCSI in RAID 10 with 320-1 RAID CARD + 64MB cache BBU In my experience, battery backed cache is always worth the money. Even if you're mostly select, you will have some updates.

Re: [PERFORM] Small DB Server Advice

2008-02-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
Matthew wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: 4 x 147GB 15000 rpm SCSI in RAID 10 with 320-1 RAID CARD + 64MB cache BBU 2x Intel Xeon E5405 / 4x 2.00GHz / 1333MHz FSB / 12MB cache 6GB RAM Cost around 2320 GBP -- it would be great to get it under 2000 Needs to be

Re: [PERFORM] Small DB Server Advice

2008-02-13 Thread Matthew
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: 4 x 147GB 15000 rpm SCSI in RAID 10 with 320-1 RAID CARD + 64MB cache BBU 2x Intel Xeon E5405 / 4x 2.00GHz / 1333MHz FSB / 12MB cache 6GB RAM Cost around 2320 GBP -- it would be great to get it under 2000 Needs to be in the UK. I

[PERFORM] Small DB Server Advice

2008-02-13 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
We have a web application for which we intend to run the database on a dedicated server. We hope by the end of 2008 to have 10 companies accessing 10 instances of the database for this application. The dump file of each database is likely to be less than 100MB at the end of the year. The databases