in general 'the bigger the pool the better'. For mass storage, larger drives are good, but to do lots of reads and writes smaller drives (more heads over the data) tend to give better performance. More spindles are good for better access to the data.
Personally I like LOTS OF BIG DRIVES (grunt grunt - Tim Allen style). If we could slice our RAID up like I would like, we would put the database on 36's, striped over mirrors (RAID1+0) with small cluster sizes for better random access performance, and use RAID5 over lots of BIG drives for disk pool, with large cluster sizes. But as always YMMV, and every solution is unique to the exact application. Overall, I guess the answer to your question is YES. :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Coviello, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: increasing the number of drives, what size? > > We are looking at expanding our drive capacity and we were discussing > whether or not to go with 36gb drives or 72's in a raid 5 config. any > thoughts on either? > > thanks > > Paul
