kjjdelist
Well Known Member
I've recently (last 6 months) changed our ENTERPRISE box from RAID1 to RAID5
to gain valuable disk space. Since that time, we've noticed a slow down in
the overall performance of our Enterprise box. I'm hesitant to say 'Eureka!
It's the RAID!' since we've made other changes and have added more load to
the box as part of our next go-live phase with CMS and Adv. Warehousing (we
are LIVE on Financials).
I have seven 9GB SCSI (10K RPM) drives configured as RAID5 allowing just
over 50GB of useable space. Should I see significant performance gains by
replacing that with four 36GB SCSI (10K RPM) drives in a RAID1
configuration?
The ENTERPRISE box is an IBM Netfinity 7000 w/Dual P-III 500 Xeons and 2GB
RAM. I have room to upgrade the memory and to add two more processors. Would
one of these options help more than the RAID configuartion?
Thanks, -Keith-
B7332, SP11.3, MSSQL 7.0, NT 4.0
to gain valuable disk space. Since that time, we've noticed a slow down in
the overall performance of our Enterprise box. I'm hesitant to say 'Eureka!
It's the RAID!' since we've made other changes and have added more load to
the box as part of our next go-live phase with CMS and Adv. Warehousing (we
are LIVE on Financials).
I have seven 9GB SCSI (10K RPM) drives configured as RAID5 allowing just
over 50GB of useable space. Should I see significant performance gains by
replacing that with four 36GB SCSI (10K RPM) drives in a RAID1
configuration?
The ENTERPRISE box is an IBM Netfinity 7000 w/Dual P-III 500 Xeons and 2GB
RAM. I have room to upgrade the memory and to add two more processors. Would
one of these options help more than the RAID configuartion?
Thanks, -Keith-
B7332, SP11.3, MSSQL 7.0, NT 4.0