Re: The good old RAID5 argument...

From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 03:46:11 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0030A60C.20010522035020@fatcity.com>

A lot of people bag raid-5 but for "read only" environments its fine. The initial load may suffer a bit - but for this, if you can isolate your redo logs onto something other than the raid-5 then you should see large benefits.

Also if its ONLY raid-5 then that would suggest the the OS and swap/paging space will be in the mix as well. You'll want to do you best (particular with the swap) to ensure that this doesn't get out of hand..

hth
connor

• Martin Kendall <Martin.Kendall_at_Rubus.com> wrote: > Guys, this is not an attempt to start that "old"
  > discussion but:-
  >
  > I have been told to install Oracle + a DB on an IBM
  > RS6000 box with nothing
  > but a RAID5 disk array on it.
  > I have explained my misgivings on this but I am told
  > that the DB will be
  > used mainly for read-only
  > operations with very few modifications to the data
  > (apart from the initial
  > load of 100GB....).
  >
  > Any ideas on the best approach, given the
  > circumstances........
  >
  > Thanks all
  >
  > Martin Kendall
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