Posted by peter

I read very nice post by Matt today and it has many good insights though I can’t say I agree on all points.
First there is a lot of people out where which put it as disk is everything. Remember Paul Tuckfield saying “You should ask how many disks they have instead of how many systems they have” on MySQL UC2008 Scalability Panel ? Indeed disks MAY be the most important part in your system performance or it may not be. Different people get to deal with different systems and so acquire different feeling about percentage of cases when disk would be the problem.
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