Re: Anyone playing with this sort of configuration?

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > I know that there's been talk of using SSDs, but there's an offshoot of > ssds on PCI-e cards. > > Was wondering if anyone has been playing with IDS 10, or 11 using SSDs > on the primary, then doing replication to a server with SAS drives and > some more space. > > I'm assuming that the OLTP db wouldn't be too large (under 250 GB total) > for everything. > > In theory, this could be the same box... using virtualization. 2 socket > (8 core) total with 4 cores per server and tons of memory. > > Has anyone thought about this? > > Is the pci-e cards/ssds faster than SATA-3? > > Would be doing raid 10 on both SSD and SAS drives. > > Thoughts? > > Another configuration for a retail server would be a small lower power > Intel 5500 series chips. quad core, and ssd drives in a raid 10 > configuration. This would be ideal to ship 2, one Unit high rackable > servers, prebuilt and loaded on to small machine w SSDs in to a store > where you don't really have high OLTP volume. Maybe peak 100-500 tpm > during holiday. > > Again a single low wattage 4 core, tied to a twin for redundancy. In > theory, machine could be smaller, less prone to dust and less than > perfect environments. Could in theory go even smaller... > > Thoughts? Why are you asking us? Don't you bloody know everything anyway? -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.