Re: What would you do with 8 disks?

From: Cary Millsap <cary.millsap_at_method-r.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:30:02 -0500
Message-ID: <3a2a84fc0904081030ldd84170pebfc5aa8faa664ea_at_mail.gmail.com>

I would stripe and mirror everything and do the extra stuff I blogged about at http://tinyurl.com/cuhlpx.

Cary Millsap
Method R Corporation
http://method-r.com
http://carymillsap.blogspot.com

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Mir M. Mirhashimali <mhyder_at_rice.edu>wrote:

> I kinda like to spread my redo to several disks
>
> I have 4 disks and i write the redo logs as follows
>
> Disk1 - OS
> G01_M1 on disk2
> G01_M2 on disk3
> G02_M1 on disk3
> G02_M2 on disk4
> G03_M1 on disk4
> G03_M2 on disk2
>
> and so on
>
> this way redo is safe from disk failure.
>
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> Database Architecture, Enterprise Applications
> Rice University
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> -original message-
> Subject: What would you do with 8 disks?
> From: "dave" <david.best_at_gmail.com>
> Date: 08-04-2009 07:49
>
> Hey all,
>
> If you had 8 disks in a server what would you do? From watching this
> list I can see alot of people using RAID 5 but i'm wary of the
> performance implicatons. (http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/)
>
> I was thinking maybe RAID 5 (3 disks) for the OS, software and
> backups. RAID 10 (4 disks + 1 hot spare) for the database files.
>
> Any thoughts?
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