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Forgot to add: use RAID 10 or mirrored SSD. no RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID DP, etcetera. Use of any of these will cost you more money because - your nightly batch jobs may not finish in time - all write-intensive maintenance tasks that involve high volumes of output will take much longer. this includes backups, restore from backup, index rebuilds, data dumps, table and index moves, - your disaster recovery time will be at least doubled and likely more.
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