Since data will be read from and saved to the server's hard disk, the hard disk's seek time, read response, RPMs, etc. will affect the performance of AgilePoint systems. Therefore, the faster your server's hard disk performs, the better your system's performance will be. However, hard disk performance generally has the greatest affect on database servers. For other servers (or for hard disks that don't contain a database), hard disk performance is much less critical and unlikely to affect performance significantly, unless the server starts using virtual memory (see above), in which case it may become very critical.