Re: What would you do with 8 disks?

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Cary Millsap <cary.millsap_at_method-r.com>wrote:

> I would stripe and mirror everything and do the extra stuff I blogged about
> at http://tinyurl.com/cuhlpx.
>
> Cary Millsap
> Method R Corporation
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> http://carymillsap.blogspot.com
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> 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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>> Mir M. Mirhashimali
>> Oracle Systems Manager
>> Database Architecture, Enterprise Applications
>> Rice University
>> (713) 348 6365
>>
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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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