Benefit of moving Master & TempDB to diff HD

adude

I am interested to hear if people think it would be a good idea to move
the Master & TempDB to a different HD.

Here is my DB Server's set up:
1. Processor: (1) AMD XP 2800
2. 1st HD (IDE 0) is the system & boot drive
3. (3) SCSI HD make up a hardware RAID level 0 (striped without
parity)solution - these striped drives are just for my working DBs
4. (1) SCSI HD that's not doing anything.

I want to put the Master & TempDB on the SCSI HD that's not doing
anything. Would that be the best place for it for maximum performance or
should I put in the striped array. I am leaning more towards putting on
the SCSI HD that's not doing anything. What do you all think?

Ed

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Erland Sommarskog

adude (no****@devdex. com) writes:

I am interested to hear if people think it would be a good idea to move
the Master & TempDB to a different HD.

Here is my DB Server's set up:
1. Processor: (1) AMD XP 2800
2. 1st HD (IDE 0) is the system & boot drive
3. (3) SCSI HD make up a hardware RAID level 0 (striped without
parity)solution - these striped drives are just for my working DBs
4. (1) SCSI HD that's not doing anything.

I want to put the Master & TempDB on the SCSI HD that's not doing
anything. Would that be the best place for it for maximum performance or
should I put in the striped array. I am leaning more towards putting on
the SCSI HD that's not doing anything. What do you all think?

I would not move master.

If that idle HD is on a different controller, moving something could be
good for performance. If you have lots of action in tempdb, this could
be a candidate. You could also consider moving transaction logs to the
idle disc.

If the disk in the same controller as the rest, I think it would be better
to move disk into the stripe. If the IDE disk is slow, you couls still
move tempdn into the RAID.

I need to add the disclaimer that hardware configuration is not my best
game.
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