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Old 11-10-2003, 06:10 PM  
toddler
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Originally posted by keyDet79


It would only slow you down if you use software raid instead of hardware. Raid just increases (or doubles if its 2 drives) your rpm so to speak. And a lot of rpm (rotations per minute) is not very useful if you are serving small files / web pages.

'Multi hundred Gig databases'? Best choice would be a separate mysql server with SCSI RAID, preferably on a 64bit CPU (like dual AMD Opteron) and OS, certainly. Considering the speed increase if you use the 64 bits version of mysql. But if we are talking about databases of a few gigs or less, that shit just gets loaded into RAM.
I think you may need to go reread some documentation.
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