Re: Cheap RAID system recommendation?

Anthony Mandic <am_is_not_at_start.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Whenever we can avoid full table scan, we do it. That is where
>> scattered I/O comes to play.
>
> OK.

If you don't already have 16GB in your E3500, that might be more worthwhile to get slower/fewer disks and more RAM for the buffer cache.

IO is so much faster when you don't have to go to disk :-)

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