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03-12-2008, 03:38 AM #1Newbie
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Is IBM x3250 a right choice as a database server?
Hi,
I have an IBM System x3250 Intel Xeon 3040 Dual Core 1.87GHz/1066MHz FSB, 2x1MB L2 cache
2x512MB 667MHz PC2-5300 ECC DDR2 SDRAMs/8GB Max (4 DIMM)
250GB Simple Swap SATA HDD
This is mainly going to run MySQL database for my e-newsletter application. I do an email blast of about 100,000 email at a time about 3 times a week. Every clicks and every opens of newsletter will be recorded in the database. Is this server a right choice?
Thanks.
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03-12-2008, 05:22 AM #2Temporarily Suspended
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Is it single disk? For DB server, I would like to use raid-10, not even raid-1
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03-12-2008, 05:33 AM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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I'd go for raid10 too, but otherwise it sounds like a decent server.
Our new database box is going to be
x2 4800 dual core
4x 2gb ddr2 800 (8gb ram total)
4x sata2 drives raid10 for db's
2x raid 0 drives for operating system and search indexer which indexes the databases every 5 mins (some sites every 1 min) The quicker it can write to the drive the better.-Chris@XS
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03-12-2008, 10:06 AM #4Web Hosting Evangelist
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03-12-2008, 02:30 PM #6Aspiring Evangelist
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03-12-2008, 05:40 PM #7Web Hosting Evangelist
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My 15K SAS/SCSI response was to the OP. As for you, Raid 0 holds very few advantages except in a couple setups that I have seen (non-critical redundant systems). The Raid 0 stripe will yield very little performance gains, in comparison the simple, yet effective redundancy of Raid 1.
I would easily take a singe quality drive over striping my data over 2 drives. Although you would have two volumes, instead of one, you would eliminate a scenario of one drive failing, and one still running, yet all data on that system being hosed.
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03-13-2008, 08:00 AM #8Newbie
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Thank you for all your responses! Seem like the server is not bad.
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03-13-2008, 08:16 AM #9Newbie
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Just out of curiosity. If we decided to do RAID 0 and use other database tool to synchronize data in the database to another database on another server, will that work?