Re: Repository storage question (RAID)

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 22:24, Thomas Harold wrote:

> I wasn't sure whether the additional spindles would drive random access
> times down enough to be worth the extra drive bays. The issue isn't so
> much the SVN access, it's everything else that also lives on that set of
> RAID10 drives (SVN is just one of the multiple Xen DomUs running).
>
> Or whether I need to suck it up and move to a faster RPM drive (driving
> our costs up). In which case I would probably merely break the heavy
> disk activities out to a 2nd, dedicated box with SCSI/SAS/SATA 10k disks.

I'd max out the RAM in the box before spending a lot on faster
drives. Avoiding i/o and seeks is even better than speeding
them up.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@gmail.com
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