Re: Running on an NFS Mounted Directory

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:50:16PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>Yes, but some dedicated storage devices actually provide good
>performance with RAID5. Most simpler solutions give pretty abysmal write
>performance.

dedicated storage device != SAN != NAS. You can get good performance in 
a dedicated direct-attach device without paying for the SAN/NAS 
infrastructure if you don't need it; you don't have to go right from EMC 
to PERC with nothing in the middle.

Mike Stone