speed write to disk

[Simon Setina]

Vincent,

Yes SSD cost a lot (from 30,000 to sky is the limit $)if using external FC box. But PCI/PCI-X SSD are much much cheaper.

You also propose Berend an EVA box.
"3. Add an external disk array. This could be another SmartArray with an MSA30 shelf, an MSA1000 or MSA1500, or an EVA4000. This option allows you to use many more disks"

At the end. With smart optimization of database, using a lot of small 15K rpm disk in RAID1 not 5 a significant improving can be expected.


Simon

[Berend Tooms]

Hello everyone,

I have done everything that is reasonable. A BBWC 128Mb, 2 Gb extra memory (now 3,5 Gb), but nothing has changed. Has somebody any idea to tweak this machine? A colleague has mroe or less the same configuration, but uses W2003 and writes almost 5000 and reads 5 times more. What are we doing wrong???

Berend

[david murray]

How do you measure the IOPS or otherwise benchmark the drive?