Re: recommended raid level for 8i?

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:16:54 +0200, "John Theunis" <john.theunis_at_advalvas.be> wrote:

>If you are the DBA, I would say: never settle for raid 5 because it is
>'cheaper' and the 'overhead is minimal'
>Sure managers want fast, good & cheap things, preferebly all at the same,
>but in the end, when performance goes down because raid5 just can't handle
>'those one or two exceptional quick & dirty queries' which genereate huge
>rollback, redologs, data & index segment I/O, they will again come knocking
>on the dba's door...
>
>What 's the cost of a 10k scsi drive these day anyway?

Agree, disks are cheap these days ;-)

Robert Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 08:39:50 CDT