Ah, but those are the CF boxes.
When we use the 2450s as DB servers, we spec them at 2 PIIIs and 1gig. We
move to a beefier raid controller with write caching and battery backup
behind a Raid 5 array with 10k rpm drives.
We prefer to go with a more substantial machine, when possible.
Cary
At 09:34 AM 5/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>At 08:40 AM 5/11/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >We spec our CF boxes (NT/2000) at 2 PIIIs (not Xeon), mirrored disks and
> >512 MB. We generally buy the fastest processors available, lately 733s
> >and, as tempting as those little IBMs may be, we currently favor Dell 2450s.
>
>We've got much the same setup, however, I would also add in the caveat that
>your database system performance will also be fairly dependent on hard
>drive performance. So take a look at RAID-5 setups with at least 7,200 rpm
>(and preferably 10,000 rpm) drives. Drive seek times will effect many of
>your queries and drive transfer rates will effect large results sets.
>
>Judah
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
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