Hello Sam and Scott > We'll be looking at more performance boosts once the system is mature. > We already have the DB on a dedicated drive, on a dedicated controller. > Moving to a RAID 1 config with another 120GB drive would be good. The DB > on disk currently takes up about 35GB with only 1 quarters data, but > growth with longer timespans should be minimal as the DB is very well > normalised. RAID 5 not an option in the current box, as there are not > enough bays in the (crappy RM desktop) case, and we'd have to use > software RAID or buy a more epensive controller, and probably move to > SCSI, which would be expensive enough to justify buying a small > dedicated box instead, which would be better in many ways. When ones > workstation is also supposed to be a high-availability server, certain > things become difficult. Is there any knowned rate in percent, how much faster a database will be if I would put 1GB instead of 512MB into my server? What RAID do you prefer? A 'simple' RAID1 should be enough or do you prefer RAID5 or what else?
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