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Re: VOS and RAID 5

From: Viacheslav Leichinsky <v_leichinsky_at_ittoolbox.com>
Date: 31 Jul 2001 05:21:44 -0700
Message-ID: <beb04beb.0107310421.520366e3@posting.google.com>

Dan Gould <dlg_nospam_at_cs.brown.edu> wrote in message news:<9k4rnl$2h$1_at_saturn.services.brown.edu>...
> I ran across the Veritas/Oracle/Sun Initiative (www.vosinitiative.com)
> recommended configurations. They seem to use a Sun T3 array configured
> as a RAID 5. However, everything else I've seen denegrates the use of
> RAID level 5 (primarily due to the overhead for small writes -- something
> I anticipate doing a lot of in my DB) in favor of RAID 1+0.
>
> Should I ignore their recommendations? Or does the HW RAID support
> overcome the disadvantes for level 5?
>
> Thanks,
> dan

Hi Dan,
I think would be better to use RAID10 in your case - for write intensive application. BTW, I heard rumors regarding poor performance of sun disk arrays so Sun is going to sell HDS arrays.

Regards,
Slava. Received on Tue Jul 31 2001 - 07:21:44 CDT

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