and as far as using 1E, Microsoft seems to have no problem using it to highlight SQL server performance with Great Plains accounting. RAID 10 better? Sure but if you...

Have you looked at your code? Maybe it's not as efficient as it could be.

Not sure about fibre channel stuff.

Try this.

http://www.datatrend.com/resources/pdf/fast200.pdf

What raid controller are you using?

If by chance you're using an IBM serveraid adapter you can go with raid 1E which is sorta like raid 10 in that it has less write overhead than raid...

Thanks everybody!!!

One other thing. I've got dynamic memory management enabled. The server has 2 gig and is not running other apps. The minimum mem is set to 0 with the max...

Cool. Thanks. That was my initial thought but some of the other stuff I read made me second guess.