<tdwilsonng_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> For the last few years, Oracle has recommended using a single RAID 10
> array. They call it the SAME methodology (Stripe And Mirror
> Everything). The thinking is that with today's caching controllers and
> fast disks, you'll get a better I/O balance with a single RAID 10 array
> than you would spending a lot of time trying to analyze I/O and moving
> datafiles around. There's a white paper about it on OTN or Metalink.
> We've been using this method on Dell servers and it works well.
That is quite reassuring as it was my thinking too. My main concern was
that only having four drives would make a RAID 10 array pointless as the
striping would only be over two disks. Do you think it is still worth it?
Received on Tue Dec 21 2004 - 11:18:48 CST
