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Author Re: RAID & Drive Type for Server?
Linchi Shea

2006-10-25, 6:00 am

One small caveat though, if a small database does a lot of writes, you can
still stress the I/O subsystem.

Linchi

"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:

> I tend to agree with Linchi given the small size of the db. Most if not all
> of the data should be in cache anyway so there should be very little disk
> I/O on a constant basis.
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> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
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> "Don Miller" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Don Miller

2006-10-25, 6:00 am

Thanks for the quick reply yesterday and for your thoughts.

"Linchi Shea" < LinchiShea@discussio
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