The benefit in quick drives is relative. It would depend on your application. If you are serving huge files all of the time then yes, and probably also if you are saving a lot of files most of the time. Linux caches disk reads so having lots of ram would help with this, but I do not know which OS you intend to use. Of all the hardware components disk IO will always be the slowest so the quicker the better, within reason of course. 4 Serial ATA drives configured with raid 10 might be a good idea and relatively cheap. Regards > Thanks for the reply > > I could bump to 4 G of ram. As the machine will be mostly > acting as a load balancer, will there be a benefit in quick drives? > > Thanks > AFrieze > ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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