disk speed (rpm)

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hello,

I'm about to roll out a couple of windows 2003 sql server 2005 for a
financial platform (banking industry).
the servers use local hard disks to boot (drive c) but are attached to
a san for holding data (drive d).

now I noticed that the local sas disks are 15k rpm fast, while the
disk hosted on the san only is 5k fast.
I don't have that much know how with san solutions, but is it normal
that san disks are so slow (our san is from hitachi) ? would it be
better to use local disks for our sql server (the databases are used
very heavily) ?

does rpm makes a big difference in terms of sql server operations ?

thanks in advance for any help.
regards,
zz
 
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