Re: RAID 5 or 5 hard disks?

Allen wrote:
>
> I've always installed my databases with indexes on one HD, RBS on another,
> etc.. now I'm in a new environment where they want to use a Raid 5 disk
> box that will have all my datafiles in the same volume. Supposedly the
> RAID stuff will take care of spreading out the files on different HDs.
> Is this cool, or should I still insist on several different HDs within the
> Raid 5 environment?
>
> thx.. Allen

A lot of people will have a lot of opinions on this...my own is that RAID is a good thing but typically I'm more a fan of choosing the right RAID for the job - which end up being a mix of RAID-1, 5 etc

HTH

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