Re: Handling large volumes of data

On Dienstag, 8. April 2008 Johann Spies wrote:
> This took about a week on a 2xCPU quadcore server with 8Gb RAM.

This is not the most interesting thing here. What disk I/O subsystem do
you use? At least a hardware RAID controller with RAID 0 or 10 should
be used, with 10krpm or 15krpm drives. SAS preferred, as on SATA the
only quick disks are Western Digital Raptor (which aren't too bad,
btw).

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