Re: Handling large volumes of data

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:01:14PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Dienstag, 8. April 2008 Johann Spies wrote:
> > This took about a week on a 2xCPU quadcore server with 8Gb RAM.
>
> This is not the most interesting thing here. What disk I/O subsystem do
> you use? At least a hardware RAID controller with RAID 0 or 10 should
> be used, with 10krpm or 15krpm drives. SAS preferred, as on SATA the
> only quick disks are Western Digital Raptor (which aren't too bad,
> btw).

I have got 8x720G disks in a hardware raid 5 setup. It is a Dell 2950
server. I am using an XFS-filesystem. I am not certain about the
speed of the hard disk, but we bought the fastest we could get.

Regards
Johann

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