OT: High End SCO System for Filepro

[Transpower]

John:

I agree with using Ultra320 SCSI drives, but I'm not so sure about 15k 
or 20k drives--I've heard reports of extreme heat build-up and 
breakdowns in these faster drives.  10k drives work fine and are a lot 
less expensive than 15k or 20k drives.  Just my $2.

Ron Satz
transpower at aol.com

John Esak wrote on 11/10/2005, 3:03 PM:

 > >
 > > > 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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