On 1/18/06, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good call. > Actually, a *mirror* RAID array is *slower*, all other things being equal. Two writes instead of 1, though certain controllers make the overhead *very* small. Reads, not so different.
If you're after pure speed, you want a RAID *stripe* -- eg RAID 0, which spreads data access across 2 or more drives with a corresponding increase in speed. All that said, while YMMV, 2gb is gonna put all but the most enormous and session-variable-intensive web sites into RAM, so the HD hit is minimal. But I'd still get RAID w/o even thinking twice -- more flexibility for either redundancy (RAID 1, 5, 10) or speed (RAID 0) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:06 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > > The hd is an obvious bottleneck. That's usually the slowest point in your > system. I would use a SCSI or at least a SATA drive, and then probably for > good measure set it up a mirror RAID array (that way you get better > performance. > > Russ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Baz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:49 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > > > > If I installed: > > - CFMX7 Enterprise > > - MySQL 5.0 > > > > On the following machine: > > - Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz - 120 GB IDE HD - 2 GB RAM > > > > Am I making good use of the hardware? Can both technologies fully utilize > > the CPU and RAM? Any obvious bottlenecks, perhaps add another GB of ram? > > > > Cheers, > > Baz > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229951 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
