[dba-VB] Suddenly I can see

Sorry, I thought I did.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219021&cm_re=4u_rackmount_case-_-11-219-021-_-Product

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> Links please?
> How noisy is this beauty?
> 
> /gustav
> 
> 
>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 09-07-2010 21:06 >>>
> I bought a nice little (big actually) 4U rack mount case for my SQL Server, the new widget I am 
> building.
> 
> The cool thing about this case is that it uses 20 hot swap disk sleds, and they have a very neat 
> little light pipe system to display the power and activity on each disk.  The disk sleds plug in to 
> a backplane, and on that backplane are a green power and blue data LED.  There are two clear plastic 
> light pipes along the side of the sled which pipes the light to the front so it can be seen.  Really 
>   cool I thought.
> 
> What this means to me is that for the first time I can actually see which disks are in use.  The 
> server "lights up like a Christmas tree" when stuff is actually written to disk.
> 
> I am now able to actually compare the screen as I run processes, and watch the lights and I'm here 
> to tell you, my disks are not the bottleneck.  SQL Server will process for many seconds and then a 
> burst of disk activity a half second long, then many seconds of crunching, then a half second of 
> disk activity.
>