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Steve Shorter wrote:

>>>>Thanks - any help/hints is appreciated.
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>	Disk design issues  matter cause it is the ultimate 
>bottleneck. RAID is you friend.
>

Just curious - what RAID level/configuration do you use?  I've typically 
used RAID5, but RAID0+1 might be acceptable.

Eric


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