Re: RAID5 - ORACLE

hi

i have experience of two identical oracle databases on same server, different disks, one RAID 1 and one RAID 5. the raid 5 was 25% ish slower in performance, it will work, gives slightly better resilience but would not advise. we were able to improve the performance by testing different stripe widths in RAID5 on another box and then rebuilding the file system.

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Pete Finnigan
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In article <9m5kce62dgd_at_enews3.newsguy.com>, 212. 253. 3. 43 <?@?.?> writes
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>Hi Oracle gurus,
>
>I have a question about Raid systems. I am an Informix dba and due to some
>reasons ý dont use raid5
> with database server. Currently i am inside a project with oracle and the
>customer wants to use Raid5 .
>The os is nt. I wonder whether this is a good thing or not. Based on my previous
>experiences with Informix , i
>am strongly against using Raid5 but i dont know the situation with Oracle.
>
>I will be appreciated if you can comment about this.
>
>Kind Regards,
>hope
>
>
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