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Re: RAID 5 or 5 hard disks?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:14:37 -0000
Message-ID: <90qjbe$561$1@soap.pipex.net>

redo logs and archived redo logs are sequentially written. raid 5 doesn't do this well.
"Christian Greven" <greven.christian_at_baufeldt.de> wrote in message news:90qbmg$d4$00$1_at_news.t-online.com...
>
> Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> 90ol0s$1qcsm$4_at_ID-62141.news.dfncis.de...
> > You need at least 4 disks to compensate for the write penalty on RAID-5.
> > Also online redo log files and archive log files shouldn't reside on a
> > RAID-5 array.
>
> Why not. Can you give a reason, please?
>
>
> Bye,
> Christian Greven.
>
>
Received on Fri Dec 08 2000 - 06:14:37 CST

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