>>>>> "SS" == Stalin Subbiah <Subbiah> writes:
SS> We are looking into Sun V210 (2 x 1 GHz cpu, 2 gig ram, 5.8Os) SS> vs. Dell 1750 (2 x 2.4 GHz xeon, 2 gig ram, RH3.0). database will SS> mostly be write intensive and disks will be on raid 10. Wondering SS> if 64bit 1 GHz to 32bit 2.4 GHz make a big difference here. Spend all your money speeding up your disk system. If you're mostly writing (like my main app) then that's your bottleneck. I use a dell 2650 with external RAID 5 on 14 spindles. I didn't need that much disk space, but went for maxing out the number of spindles. RAID 5 was faster than RAID10 or RAID50 with this configuration for me. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-301-869-4449 x806 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
