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Originally Posted by Cyandin
Dual Intel Quadcore Xeon e5640's
32GB DDR3-1333 ECC RAM
8x80GB Intel 80GB SSD in Raid-10 (yielding a mind numbingly fast 320GB storage volume)
From there, you can implement memcached, or even use a chunk of the servers memory for a ramdisk. There are lots of good options on the software side.
A server like this will be a sickeningly fast, DB shredding machine.  |
we have two of something similar but a little downgraded... E5520's, 32GB Memory (8x4GB), 1066MHz, 5 146GB 15K's om each.
they handle our databases quite nicely