[ic] hardware for Interchange

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Scott Lewis (scott001@balticave.com):
> That leaves $300-800 to soup it up for Interchange. How would you 
> prioritize these possiblities (in terms of performance increase/$):
> 
> more memory
> SCSI hard drive
> RAID card and another HD
> faster processor
> 

1. SCSI hard drive
2. SCSI hard drive
3. RAM
4. faster processor

The RAID will be a downgrade in performance unless you leave a
partition which is non-RAID for fast session writes. (And yes,
I have heard people tell me that hardware RAID has good latency
but I simply have never seen that in practice.)

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