SATA drive ?

[Vu Pham]

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> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Net Llama!
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:34 AM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: Re: SATA drive ?
> 
> 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.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. This system is a pilot system, its database is
small ( no more than 10,000 records ) and no more than 5 users accessing to
the system at same time. How much memory is reasonable in this case ?

Vu