From: "Geo." 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3ebd5e24$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> The server I'm talking about runs Oracle, so disk speed is critical...
> (It's officially out of that job now and only runs as a WINS server right
> now, The Oracle app is long gone...)

Wanna hear a good one, the db that runs the ISP (billing, calls records,
authentication, etc) is running on a software RAID1 mirror setup. I was
going to put it on a RAID5 netserver but I only have a single cpu license
for sqlserver so the second cpu would have been wasted on it.

> Like I said, not in my experience, but I bet your servers have a long more
> RAM than my old Oracle server.

It takes more than just RAM, mirroring does take a little cpu (like 2%) so
if you run a lot of tasks that max out the cpu at peak disk access times
then I guess it would matter. For a file or web server that's not a problem
but for a db server it can have an effect. However if you are running a P3
or P4 it's likely you can spare the cycles. Seti is proof of that..  for awhile, but switched it back because both WinXP and Linux had a
problem
> installing with my controller, and now just depend on more RAM for the
> speed.

it's fun watching Linux go thru the same thing NT went thru, where hardware
was NT's biggest handicap.

Geo.

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