Hi,
I was lead to believe that hyperthreading is not available in win2k, and causes performance problems if implemented.

Not knowing your exact setup makes it difficult to comment, but I would look at at least doubling the number of servers with multiple 1GB connections & Raid 10 as it does have significant performance benefits.

Finding where the bottlenecks are is the answer. Testing is the only answer, but 8M/day writes would be pushing 2 x quads.

You wouldn,t have the problem if you went to a transaction based system i.e. Red Hat.

Regards N Mc Donald

P.S. I would query the logic of whoever spec'ed the system.

>What is the ideal hardware configuration for SQL Server 2000? We have about 2 dozen databases - ranging in size from 500 MB up to 90 GB. All databases have very heavy traffic from multiple users on the same app. There are about 8 reads for every write, averaging about 8 million writes per 24-hour period.
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>Currently we have these databases split across 2 servers with 4 2.4 Ghz hyperthreaded processors and have 8 GB of RAM. The disks are 10,000 RPM SCSI, and are all in one very large physical disk array split into 2 logical drives per server. Logs and data for multiple databases are all sharing the same array.
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>Performance is becoming a pressing issue. Our Network administrator is 100% that the hardware configuration is not an issue, and I am 100% convinced it is at least a major part of the issue. Does anyone here feel that it may be the issue?