OT: High End SCO System for Filepro

[Doug Luurs]

Acutally .. I booboo'd .. They are SCSI in a RAID (99% Sure its RAID-5).

I think that is what I am going to do.  Order a backup server,  and
configure
It with SCO 6, etc.  Then Xfer the data over, and let it fly.

Thanks for all the Ideas on and off list.

Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of John Esak
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:04 PM
> To: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: OT: High End SCO System for Filepro
> 
> 
> >
> > > Current Configuration :-
> > > 	Dell PowerEdge 2650
> > > 		Dual Xeon Processors (2.6G)
> > > 		2 Gig RAM
> > > 		13.6G ATA Hard Drives
> > > 	SCO 5.0.7 w/ SMP License
> > > 	125 Users
> > > 	~150 Databases (Most All Tried to one another)
> > > 		Some ranging as large as 94 - 350 Meg Multi-Indexes.
> >
> > One thing stands out here. You really need a SCSI Raid hard drive 
> > system. Your performance would be phenomenally increased on 
> searches.
> 
> A ditto on this. Although, the SATA Raids are unbelievably 
> fast now. I'm going to assume you are using one. Still a raid 
> made up of 320 SCSI drives, 20k why not? :-) would go lots 
> faster. (Actually, there is plenty of reason NoT to waste 
> money on the 20k drives if they are going in a RAID, but I 
> would go for them anyway, just to be with the very latest 
> technology.) It may be that some optical drives arrays would 
> still be faster than all this, but I'm not sure their huge 
> price difference really warrants the expense.
> 
> We just bought a huge Dell server for $8,100. Just about what 
> you are showing, but all SCSI 320 drives and 200Gb of it. The 
> chips are 3.2 also. I do not think/remember that they are 
> Zeon though. Go for that if the expense is not a problem.
> 
> My real suggestion... almost hate to make it considering we 
> are not fully up on the 6.0 SCO yet... but... just changing 
> your O/S to SCO 6.0 would I think give you such an 
> improvement in file access with filePro that you would be 
> VERY happy. I've only done limited testing building indexes 
> and running some reports. The difference in speed is radical. 
> 5 seconds on 6.0 to 40 seconds on 5.6, things like that. 
> Can't be specific or scientific here, the difference in 
> hardware makes my testing unsupportable, but everyone is 
> saying what I'm saying, the 6.0 filesystem is very much 
> faster, by a LOT, then the OpenServer 5.6/7.
> 
> John
> 
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