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graz
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Posted - 2002-05-06 : 10:31:13
I'm curious if anyone out there has done any benchmarking of a disk subsystem. Are there any good tools that measure disk throughput? Is there any good way to relate that to SQL Server performance?

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MichaelP
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Posted - 2002-05-06 : 11:55:38
As far as subsystem to performance, I think you have to look at what you do more of (# of reads vs # of writes) and then you can determine how to setup your RAID array. Other than that, get the fastest drives, with the most cache, and a RAID controller with as much cache as you can, and MAKE SURE your RAID controller has abattery backed up cache.

Take a look at this when making your RAID configuration decision.
http://www.bolthole.com/uuala/RAID.html

I've not done any number crunching etc, but I think that Ultra2 SCSI (80MB/sec) drives at about 18-36GB's per drive is about the best bang for buck currently.

Michael


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