Re: Appropriate dirve size for Oracle DB

Think about the physics of the situation. Would you get more IO / second on one 36 gig drive or 9 4 gig drives stripped together (across multiple cards)? You have the same storage in both cases. In one case you have 1 spindle and one set of heads and in the other you have 9 spindles with 9 sets of heads. Answer: you will be able to get more IO / second on the 9 4 gig drives. (assuming reasonable drives). Also avoid RAID 5 go for 0+1 hardware level raid.
Jim

"Mark" <markh_at_dbs-consulting.com> wrote in message news:94dq7l$p35$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Greetings,
>
> I recently heard that Oracle performs better with smaller drives in a
> RAID set (3 Gig to 9 Gig) and a larger drive size of say 32 Gig for
> each drive is not preferable. Any truth to this? If so, why?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ;)
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> Mark H.,
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Received on Sat Jan 20 2001 - 23:25:11 CST