If you were talking about 2 disks and the data was at all important to you
I'd go for mirroring and still have a single 18gb volume. If you had 6 disks
the recommendation would be different again. You can buy a very effective
IDE Raid controller for under GBP100.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Danny" <d.stolle_at_chello.nl> wrote in message
news:%xUx9.244590$Mf5.11686759_at_Flipper...
> But if we were talking about 2x18GB harddrive; what would you recommend
me.
> I can provide you with more technical detail if you want to.
>
> Danny
>
>
> "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3DC7061E.F3EC4EED_at_exesolutions.com...
> > Danny wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i need a lot of information on what is the best way to set up the
> harddisk
> > > for installing an oracle server.
> > > the installation will be done on a Windows NT Server 4.0 Stand Alone
> server;
> > > the amount of diskspace is 18 GB (not much but our company isn't that
> big).
> > > no Raid controller, just a straight forward IDE harddrive.
> > >
> > > if i want to partition it this way, can you tell me of it is
> recommendeble?
> > >
> > > one primairy partitioning NTFS formatted size: 2048 MB for the
operating
> > > system.
> > > the rest is extended; as for the logical drives: 2 logical drives: the
> first
> > > NTFS formatted size 2048 for the Swapfile, the rest of the logical
drive
> is
> > > for the installation of the Oracle runtime and datafiles. or is it
best
> > > having separate partitions for the Oracle runtime and datafiles? Or do
I
> > > have to set up stripe-set?
> > >
> > > i know the OTN.ORACLE.COM site having the documentation; and having
the
> > > installation guide for installing Oracle, but i would like the best
way
> of
> > > setting up the partitioning.
> > >
> > > Danny
> >
> > If you are talking about a single physical disk it doesn't matter what
you
> do.
> > Partitioning in Windows is meaningless without multiple disks, RAID,
> striping,
> > etc.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 06 2002 - 03:02:09 CST
