Or you can just grab two boxes.. as a good dell box (from outlet) with 7X140GB(10K) dual etc.. etc.. costs around $4300..
but the setup described below does sound sweet.. muhhhh.. Pete Ruckelshaus wrote: > Wow, that's one serious database server. How many transactions per > minute/hour/day/whatever will you be getting? > > Personally, I think you're putting all your eggs in one basket. I > would guess that server is going to cost you around $20k? I would > instead get a pair of identically configured boxes, probably dual > Xeons with 2-4GB RAM. Have the drives RAID5, which I think you can do > with 3 drives. Use 10k drives, since the servers will be doing the > database I/O to the DAS unit I'm going to mention in a second, if > possible have another standalone small 15K drive in the box to use for > pagefile. Then get a DAS (direct attach storage) unit like an EMC, > fiberchannel RAID (get a FC card in the servers), to use as your data > "drive" that is common to both of your database servers (which will be > operating in failover mode). If you've got a little budget left, also > get a less expensive NAS box that you will use to offload your > transaction logs to so you aren't filling your expensive DAS with that > sort of data. > > In the end, it MIGHT cost a touch more than the server you mentioned > in your post, but you'll have greater redundancy and flexibility, and > chances are you'd have better performance. > > Pete > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:190613 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
