Re: How to make a REALLY FAST db server?

I need a scalable DB server to handle very large datasets, concurency and scalability are not that critical (yet)

I'm working with a production engineer at Channel Micro (www.channel-micro.com) to test different hardware
configurationsand one of 
the configs is using a 3Ware RAID.

Can anyone provide any DB benchmaking software?  I'm trying http://osdb.sourceforge.net/ as well as the MySQL suit and
somegeneric 
testing based on my data.

Thanks,
-Aaron Held
http://www.metrony.com

"Marshall Spight" <marshall@meetstheeye.com> wrote in message news:9odit2$r49$1@news.tht.net...
> "Ian Linwood" <ian@dinwoodi.plus.com> wrote in message
> news:8p1hqt8ds5ejacr7hhefb381f4nrerdkt4@4ax.com...
> > >> Aargh, No! SCSI is MUCH better under load and more reliable. I've yet
> > >> to see an enterprise server utilise IDE raid.
> > >
> > >Mostly prejudice - 3ware is not a lowend "software disguised as
> > >hardware" RAID. It looks like a SCSI disk to your system, and handles
> > >stress very well. Remember - everything is hardware, there is nothing
> > >to stress on your system by using IDE in the subsystem.
> >
> > No, not prejudice, mostly experience.
>
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> Do you have some data to back this up? I'd be interested in any
> published reports, benchmarks, or even the experience you mention,
> if you took measurements.
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> Marshall
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