Raid 0+1 vs. mirrored pairs

Hi Everyone,

     I guess I am stuck in the old myth which says "one giant raid array for everything is bad".  We have been told Windows  2000 server is what we will now run Oracle on.  Setting aside the debate putting of Oracle on a Windows box, I am currently in discussions about how said server will be spec'ed out.  So far we have agreed on everything except the disc drives.  Our 2000 admin says taking six 36g drives and making a raid 0+1 out of them (108 raid 0, mirrored) is the fastest and absolute best way for this server to be setup.  I like the idea of having sets of mirrored pairs.  That way I can separate tables, indexes, redo logs, rollbacks, etc.  Is my admin right?  Are raid 0+1 setups the best of the best?  Better than sets of mirrored pairs?   Thank you in advance.

Chris Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 14:04:25 CDT