Oracle-L: RE: Advice needed on move to Sun 15K (losing spindles)

From: Miller, Jay <JayMiller_at_TDWaterhouse.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:44 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004E75A6.20021011135844@fatcity.com>

Fortunately my SA believes that so we were able to present a united front at the presentation (and yes, the Sun rep said that with a large enough cache RAID 5 works just as well as 1+0 - which is what we would be using).

Jay Miller

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One thing that should be made clear: Never, ever, stripe with parity (i.e. RAID 5, etc.) unless you are force, at gunpoint, to do it. That is BAD. Your database will run faster on an abacus ... well ... maybe a slide rule.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Yes, it's entirely separate CPUs and disks. If I can believe
> the Sun rep
> (ehem) there should be no interference.
>

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