Re: hard disk configuration question

I have sun sales giving me the same line. I challenged them to prove it yesterday. I hope to have some data on this soon and will follow up.

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:30:43AM -0800, Ken Janusz wrote:
> This guy is full of it. According to Loney & Theriault in Oracle8i DBA
> Handbook ch. 4 - Physical DB Layouts. The minimum recommended is 7 HD's.
> The ideal is 22. You are much better off with more smaller size drives
> than with fewer larger sized drives.
>
> My $0.02 worth,
>
> Ken Janusz, CPIM
> Database Conversion
> Lead Sufficient System, Inc.
> Minneapolis, MN
>
>
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> Subject: hard disk configuration question
>
> We are in the process of buying new hardware, and our original configuration
> called for 10 18 GB drives in a Hitachi disk array cabinet. We are getting
> some sales pressure to change this to 5 36 GB disks. Now I was planning to
> spread our DB out over as many mirrored pairs as possible, or maybe even
> including one RAID1+0 array. The sales folks at Hitachi are telling us that
> with their new drive array technology, spreading our Data files over as many
> disks as possible is not necessary. I am supposed to talk to one of their
> engineers in an hour or so.
>
> I am just wondering if there really is some magic bullet technology I have
> missed out on, or is there sales guy full of hooey?
>
>
> They are also pushing the presence of two internal(not in the drive cabinet)
> drives as alleviating any space concerns. I am wondering what I can use
> those drives for. I don't think I want to software mirror them, but maybe
> Sun does this better than I think. Without some kind of redundancy I am
> reluctant to use these disks for any DB purposes. Any thoughts here are
> appreciated as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve McClure
>
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