Thank's for all your answers.
At 09:46 AM 1/15/2003 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Note that there's no a priori reason to believe that the ATA drive is
going to be slower than the SCSI drives.
My own take on this: it should work, and performance shouldn't be
markedly different from a 3 SCSI
Hi,
I have to setup a database (MySQL) server this days.
The machine will be a AthlonXP 2000+, 1G RAM, 2x Cheetah X15 36LP series
drive of 18GB.
And I could spare a 20G ATA100 IDE drive.
I have no experience with vinum, so i want to ask you if it is a good ideea
to add the IDE drive. I was
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
Hi,
I have to setup a database (MySQL) server this days.
The machine will be a AthlonXP 2000+, 1G RAM, 2x Cheetah X15 36LP series
drive of 18GB.
And I could spare a 20G ATA100 IDE drive.
I have no experience with vinum, so i want to ask you if it is a good
ideea to add
At 2003-01-14T10:33:51Z, Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have no experience with vinum, so i want to ask you if it is a good
ideea to add the IDE drive.
Probably not. I'd be hard pressed to think of a way that it wouldn't hurt
your performance.
On the other hand, using it as a
I would be inclined to use the 20GB IDE disk for booting
as well as for extra space to back up the db to.
I would also do raid 1 on the two identical 18GB SCSI disks.
Nightly backups of the database to the IDE disk would be an
extremely good idea. You can never have too many backups.
Raid 1
