Re: How to improve db performance with $7K?

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:20:36AM -0500, Dave Held wrote:
> Hmm...so you're saying that at some point, quantity beats quality?
> That's an interesting point.  However, it presumes that you can
> actually distribute your data over a larger number of drives.  If
> you have a db with a bottleneck of one or two very large tables,
> the extra spindles won't help unless you break up the tables and
> glue them together with query magic.  But it's still a point to
> consider.

Huh? Do you know how RAID10 works?
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