SATA drive ?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Vu Pham wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I am going to install a Linux box with Oracle. This is not a production
> system and I would like to look for some not very expensive parts, but the
> system is not so slow, too :-)
>
> I saw a recent thread on our forum about AMD 64. The article is interesting
> I think I will go for that CPU.
>
> How about the hard drive ? I guess the SATA is good enough. Which SATA drive
> is a fast one now ?

The performance of an oracle database is impacted by a lot more than the
disk speed.  In fact, i'd say that the amount of RAM coupled with tuning
of the database would impact performance more than the speed of your disks
unless you're doing something that is very write intensive to the
database.

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