Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.
I'm developing a small server farm. Just
today finally got server #2 up for testing.
Old Server: Dual Pentium II 450, NT4sp6a,
Mirrored Seagate SCSI HD. CF4.01, 256MB Ram
(only 212 MB used at the time)
New Server: Single Pentium III 733, NT4sp6a,
Single IBM ATA/66 HD. CF 4.51, 512MB Ram
(So-called cheap server, $1500)
Both servers access SQL7 on a third server
on the LAN.
For the identical tasks pulling data out of a
cached query and displaying it on a page.
New server took somewhat less than one-half
the time as Old Server (170ms vs 80ms).
Of course, in this case the hard drives
entered into the equation only minimally.
Guess this only reinforces the prevailing
opinion in some circles to go with more RAM
instead of fast hard drives (if this can
do the job in your specific case).
best, paul
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