I am researching some options for updating one of 2 Dell servers for hosting a database application. I have a Power Edge 600C (Celeron 1.8 GHz with 1 GB Ram) Windows 2000 OS and a Power Edge SC1430 (Xeon 3.0 GHz with 3 Gb RAM) Windows 2003 R2 OS.
The 600 uses IDE and SC1430 uses onboard SATA controller.
I have run the DB app on both of these machine and neither one performs at an exceptable level for endusers, i.e. blocking problem when one user runs a long process. Based on performance monitoring, it's a problem with the disk being a bottleneck.
Researching this problem has given me some options, and I'm looking for some help in making the decision or some other suggestions.
1) 3 15K RPM drives with PERC 5i controller in RAID 5
2) 1 intel SDD (SLC) with Adaptec 5405 controller (are there others?)
3) 1 intel SDD (MLC) with Adaptec 5405 controller (are there others?)
I'm not concerned with overall space on the drive as the DB file with logs is around 5 Gb with another 1 for the application. The application is supporting 15 concurrent users.
The 600 uses IDE and SC1430 uses onboard SATA controller.
I have run the DB app on both of these machine and neither one performs at an exceptable level for endusers, i.e. blocking problem when one user runs a long process. Based on performance monitoring, it's a problem with the disk being a bottleneck.
Researching this problem has given me some options, and I'm looking for some help in making the decision or some other suggestions.
1) 3 15K RPM drives with PERC 5i controller in RAID 5
2) 1 intel SDD (SLC) with Adaptec 5405 controller (are there others?)
3) 1 intel SDD (MLC) with Adaptec 5405 controller (are there others?)
I'm not concerned with overall space on the drive as the DB file with logs is around 5 Gb with another 1 for the application. The application is supporting 15 concurrent users.