SQL Server hard drive selection

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dcase
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Posted - 2011-03-15 : 14:55:44

I work for a small manufacturing company and we have five servers, one dedicated to SQL.

I'm looking to do an upgrade on this in hopes to improve data collection performance.

I recently read an article explaining how regular high speed hard drives (15k rpm) is a poor choice and to go for something solid state.

Is this something anyone has experimented with?

X002548
Not Just a Number

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Posted - 2011-03-15 : 15:17:17

well that's simple...something not moving is gonna be faster than a physical i/o on a drive that has to spin....

THIS however does not appear to be the performance problem

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tkizer
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Posted - 2011-03-15 : 15:29:35

Can you afford to purchase SSDs? They are very expensive. 15k rpm is a good choice if you can't afford SSDs.

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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2011-03-15 : 16:36:49

See, you probably don't ask that when you got to a seafood restaurant.

In any case, the real prob is your data collection "process". Not the hardware.

Explain to us what's going on, and we will make you a hero...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCteeZTrjE

Brett

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