Guest Fred Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 I have a server that will be running as a web server and a database server? To get the best performance is it better to install the database and web server on seperate physical hard drives? or it doesn't matter? I have a total of 8 harddrives, what RAID setup should i choose? Thanks, Fred
Guest Bill Nicholson Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: web server setup Here's a definition of some RAID levels: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html You can implement level 0 for improved performance but you will need a controller that supports what you want to do. Try to avoid RAID at the O/S level - get some hardware that will handle it for you. On Jul 28, 10:25 pm, "Fred" <fredbb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have a server that will be running as a web server and a database server? > To get the best performance is it better to install the database and web > server on seperate physical hard drives? or it doesn't matter? > I have a total of 8 harddrives, what RAID setup should i choose? > > Thanks, > Fred
Guest Anthony Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: web server setup Fred, Yes it is. There isn't one setup you should choose. You need to juggle the following: - mirrored pair gives more performance than RAID5 - SQL Log File can be better on its own drive separate from the SQL data, allowing both to be written at the same time - OS page file ideally on separate drive, but its a toss up between this and the SQL log file. So a typical setup would be either mirrored pair for OS plus RAID5 for data; or mirrored pair for OS, mirrored pair for SQL logs and RAID5 for data. Other factors to consider: more memory to save writing to disk; enterprise editions to use more memory. Anthony http://www.airdesk.co.uk "Fred" <fredbb123@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23c7EOfY0HHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I have a server that will be running as a web server and a database server? > To get the best performance is it better to install the database and web > server on seperate physical hard drives? or it doesn't matter? > I have a total of 8 harddrives, what RAID setup should i choose? > > Thanks, > Fred
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