Hi Garrett, The answer to your question very simple, there is no performance impact or any other confideration (like special architecture or implementation requirements) when using an enterprise FDE hard hard. From the perspective of the system, RAID controller, or DBMS, it is like any other hard drive. Therefore, the FDE hard drive performs in accordance to it's performance specifications: RPMs and I/O throughput.
Here is a video of a performance demo from Seagate that highlights this fact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUixGDNEkkw scott On Thu, 7 May 2009, Garrett M. Groff wrote: > Any experience from anyone on the impact of FDE on production systems > running a DBMS (like SQL Server)? Seems like a hardware-based FDE would > be ideal in this case (to mitigate the performance drain), except that > companies typically use a RAID configuration on the box hosting the > DBMS. Any experience or suggestions, esp when technologies like RAID are > used? > > Thanks, > G > > > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > FDE@www.xml-dev.com > http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde > _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list FDE@www.xml-dev.com http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
