[rt-users] Recommended hardware

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03:44 pm, Rick Rezinas wrote:

> Is there much value in multiple CPU's?
> I've seen RAM stated as pretty key to performance on this list.
> Any recommendations regarding disk I/O?
>
> Obviously, I'd like to purchase the biggest baddest box available, but
> this project is fairly skunkworks so my budget's not that great.

My experience is RAM is most important, followed by disk speed/reliability.

If you have frequent tape backups, don't worry about disk so much.  If you 
don't have frequent backups, hardware RAID that mirrors the disk(s) may be a 
good idea in case a disk blows out.  Otherwise, you will lose all ticket 
data, new or handled, since the last backup.