On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Phillip Berry
<pberry@stellaconcepts.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We're in the market for a new DB server to replace our current one (yes it's one of *those*
> questions) ;).
>
> It'll have quad core Xeons, 36GB RAM and some sort of Raid 10 configuration.
>
> Our provider is pushing us towards 6 x SATA II disks in a Raid 10 configuration or 4 x SAS disks in
> Raid 10 (budget constraints).
Are those your only two options? No 6 SAS drives? Are you looking at
7200rpm or 10krpm SATA? 15krpm or 10krpm SAS? What RAID controller?
Battery backed Cache? Software RAID?