[plug] Hardware: RAM questions

[Burnt Damper]

It has twin 18Gb SCSI's on a hardware RAID 1 configuration... So the
hardware probably won't be a problem - it is more likely that our
partitioning of it will be defective!

BTW, does the cache on a SCSI controller card make very much difference? It
currently has 32Mb but is upgradable to 128Mb for less than AU$60... is it
worth upgrading? (I would just include it with the system RAM order so
postage costs won't be a prob.)

This is one area I will need to read up on heavily.

Guv.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Grasso" <steveg at calm.wa.gov.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Hardware: RAM questions


> On Monday 15 October 2001 11:16, Simon Scott wrote:
> [snip]
> > Beyond this, if you really want to increase the box's performance as
> > a web server (especially with dynamic stuff using postgres or mysql)
maybe
> > you should consider implementing RAID of some form. You cant beat a good
> > disk subsystem with a sizable cache.
> >
>
> and several smaller capacity disks will generally out-perform similar
> capacity larger disks
>
> Steve
>
>