>Just one more piece of advice, you might want to look into a good battery
>backed cache hardware RAID controller. They work quite well for heavily
>updated databases. The more drives you throw at the RAID array the faster
>it will be.
I've seen this list often recommended such a setup. We'll probably
get battery-backed write cache and start out with a 4 disk RAID 10
array. Then add more disks and change RAID 5 if more read
performance is needed.
Thanks,
- Jeff
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