We found out that the D2's were causing the slowness, as the database
works incredibly fast on internal FCAL disks. We'll be testing with
the A1000 to see if performance is up to standards. Are there big
performance differences between the A1000 and the A5200?

Thanks,

Yuval








dol@ce.chalmers.se (Fredrik Lundholm) wrote in message news:<bfm9m3$q0$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se>...
> In article <f1efbdb3.0307230519.5dcc9580@posting.google.com >,
> Yuval <yuvalyuval@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >We bought a V880 to replace our older 420R. I installed a Sybase ASE
> >12 database server on the new machine (I'm a Sybase DBA), and for some
> >reason inserts into the server are running slower than the 420R. All
>
> >etc.). On the older 420R we have an A1000 in place, and on the new
> >V880 we have 2 D2's. Could the disk array be the cause of the
> >slowness? Anything else that you suggest checking?
>
> Yes, the A1000, while pretty slow, has a battery backed RAID-controller
> which caches writes and makes occasional inserts 10x faster.
>
> The D2:s are expensive and close to be (or are already) discontinued.
> A D2 has no RAID controller.
>
> A SE3310 (or better) with redundant raid controllers is what you
> want to have. You can then use RAID-5 and get maximum performance.
>
> /wfr
> Fredrik