Re: physical/virtual memory usage problem

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From: Kirill S. Palagin (kpalagin_at_no.mail.phxint.ru)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:46:27 +0300

AFAIK, current recomendation is RAID10 for database, as it is faster on writes.

Pete wrote:

> Marco,
>
> Due to the way that Exchange writes data to log files (sequentially), and
> reads data from the database (randomly), you might also find yourself wanting
> to separate these two functions.
>
> If you can afford it, you could provide for a RAID- 5 Array for the Database
> files, while mirroring the transaction logs on a separate RAID-1 volume. This
> is a best practice recommendation from Microsoft and I have found it to be
> the one configuration change that makes the most difference on performance.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Pedro
>
> "MarcoM" wrote:
>
> <snip>

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