Kevin,
It is impossible to tell if your configuration will perform well or not without
knowing the load that your application will place on it. With 5 of the 4.3GB
drives (7200 RPM?) running RAID5 you can handle approximately 350 reads per
second or 87 writes per second or a combination of the two. Depending on the
memory in your system and the workload this may be sufficient. If the load is
too high, you may be starting out with an I/O bottleneck.
Another issue is the fact that you are forced to share your data and log files
on the same volume with the OS. Again, if you are running a very small system
with very little load and no update activity this will be fine.
Good luck.
--
Edward Whalen
President
Performance Tuning Corporation
Database Performance Consultants
Email: ewhalen_at_perftuning.com
Web: www.perftuning.com
Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 00:00:00 CST
