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in thread OT: What Hardware is important for large I/O bound processes

Well, get the best hardware money can buy and it should be OK :)

OK, from a ROI perspective, low-end servers like supermicro or Dell with a dual-Xeon, a FC or SCSI board and an external drive enclosure with FC or SCSI drives is probably "good enough" for most database works (one of my customers uses a similar machine with a 9TB database)

In case you may need more storage, Apple X-Serve Raid is great but as I mentioned, be prepared to fill it if you want to do serious database work. HP, EMC and other have similar products but I didn't try them so I can't really compare.

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