Re: [PERFORMANCE] Buying hardware

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> More cores is more important than faster but fewer
>
> Again, more slower disks > fewer slower ones.

Not necessarily. It depends what you are doing. If you're going to be
running only one database connection at a time, doing really big complex
queries, then having really fast CPUs and discs is better than having
lots. However, that situation is rare.

> RAID-10 is almost always the right choice.

Agreed. Unless you don't care about the data and need the space, where
RAID 0 might be useful, or if you really don't need the space, where RAID
1 might be okay. If your controller supports it.

Matthew

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