"Shaun Thomas" <sthomas(at)townnews(dot)com> wrote in message
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> > - Disk: SCSI Raid 1+0
>
> To really eek out as much speed as possible here, you'll want 10k RPM
> Ultra-160 Fibre Channel SCSI drives with a dedicated hardware raid
> controller. If have more reads than writes, you may want to use Raid 5
> instead.
15k RPM drives are available from Seagate and IBM. The Seagate drives
are slightly faster.
Cheers,
Colin