… looking at customers system today I went to check Dell Poweredge R900. This monster takes up to 4 Quad Core CPUs… drives RAID and 2 CPUs (just as we usually configure PowerEdge 2950) with 128GB of RAM for about $16000. This means talking…
Comment: Beware: ext3 and sync-binlog do not play well together
April 7, 2009 By 19 Comments
Thanks for your quick replies. I am running MySQL on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC6 (with BBU) 6 x 15K drives configured with Raid 10. Is the recommendation to: 1) mount XFS with -onobarrier 2) write cache disabled for the drive 3) write-back enabled for the controller
Post: Evaluating IO subsystem performance for MySQL Needs
March 5, 2008 By 23 Comments
… wondering which hardware I used for benchmarks – it is Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC5 and 6 10K RPM hard drives in RAID5.
Comment: MySQL: what read_buffer_size value is optimal ?
September 18, 2007 By 25 Comments
… I’ll try to rerun this test on my Dell PowerEdge 2950 box which has more hard drives and so in theory…
Post: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… with good price/performance. We use a lot of Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 6 hard drives and 16GB of RAM. With other…
Post: RAID System performance surprises
March 5, 2008 By 7 Comments
… (LSI MegaRaid) – Pretty typical controller from Dell installed on PowerEdge 1950, 2950 etc you should be aware of couple of things Battery…
