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RE: Configuring Oracle with RAID and OFA

From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:54:07 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00574349.20030327065407@fatcity.com>


Dennis,

Sometimes you don't have the option to decide if you are using a single RAID set or not. At my last job I was told "hey, we have 375GB of space for you -- and it's RAID-5". I was not asked if I wanted it configured that way, I was not listened to when I protested. So the alternatives I faced were a) run my database on RAID-5 and do the best I can or b) quit because I refused to run a database on RAID-5

Option b seemed a little extreme. You really can't make pronouncements like "you shouldn't run a production database on a single RAID set" because sometimes you have to.

Oh yeah -- the database ran fine, we had no performance problems and we DID have good backups.

Rachel


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