Brian,
On 9/11/06 8:50 AM, "Brian Wipf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a great idea. One question though. If I put all 16 drives in a
> RAID 10 for the database, where should I put the logs? On that large
> RAID set? If I use a RAID controller with a BB cache for the mirrored
> laptop drives
On 8-Sep-06, at 2:44 AM, Luke Lonergan wrote:
One modification: we implemented two internal 60GB laptop hard
drives with
an additional 3Ware 8006-2LP controller on each machine for the OS.
This
frees up all 16 SATA II drives for data.
That's a great idea. One question though. If I put all
I agree with Luke's comments, although Luke knows I'm an unabashed
Areca admirer where RAID controllers are concerned.
As tweakers.net recently reaffirmed, Areca cards with 1GB of BB cache
on them are faster than the AMCC/3Ware 9550 series.
Where Linux kernels are concerned, make sure you are a
Brian Wipf wrote:
I am in the process of speccing out a new box for a highly utilized
(updates, inserts, selects) 40GB+ database. I'm trying to maximize
performance on a budget, and I would appreciate any feedback on any of
the following.
Perhaps this is off topic, but here is bit from my exp
Brian,
I like all of the HW - I just thoroughly reviewed this and came to the same
HW choices you did. The new SuperMicro chassis is an improvement on one we
have used for 21 servers like this.
One modification: we implemented two internal 60GB laptop hard drives with
an additional 3Ware 8006-2L
