[PERFORM] Hardware question for a DB server

2008-03-12 Thread Pascal Cohen
Hello, we plan to buy a dedicated server to host our database. Here is the proposal I was given (with a second identical server fro backup using log shipping): = IBM X3650 (This is a 2U server, can hold 8 Drives) 2 x QC Xeon E5450 (3.0GHz 12MB L2 1333MHz 80W) 8 x 2GB RAM

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware question for a DB server

2008-03-12 Thread Pascal Cohen
question that's likely going to be important depending on your answers above is whether or not you're getting a battery-backed write cache for that ServeRAID-8K. -- Mark Lewis On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 19:58 +0100, Pascal Cohen wrote: Hello, we plan to buy a dedicated server to host ou

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware question for a DB server

2008-03-14 Thread Pascal Cohen
Greg Smith wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Mark Lewis wrote: One question that's likely going to be important depending on your answers above is whether or not you're getting a battery-backed write cache for that ServeRAID-8K. Apparently there's a 8k-l and an regular 8-k; the l doesn't have the