2nd hard disk for MySQL/PostgreSQL database under RedHat 7.2

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Patrick R. McManus wrote:

> [John Abreau: Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:41:38PM -0500]
> > 
> > If you're doing this for performance reasons, I'd recommend adding a 
> > scsi controller and using a scsi disk instead of ide. Of course, that
> 
> seconded! And get a 10k-spin disk instead of the 7200.. db performance
> is often all about latency issues.
> 
> > I recall reading in the Tivo forums about a size limit, I think it was
> > somewhere around 130 GB, but offhand I'm not sure if that was an ide
> > limit or a tivo-specific limit.
> 
> to go over 130GB on ide you just need 48 bit addressing.. you can get
> the patches here:
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/

Also, put in lots of RAM so a lot of data gets cached anyway.

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