RAID: Advantage or disaster?

From: Andy Kent <andykent.bristol.DontSpamMe_at_virgin.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:51:24 -0000
Message-ID: <qZmP7.2073$QS4.212051@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>

What do people think about the use of RAID for an IDS database these days? Better, worse, or about the same on balance as JABOD? Any RAID levels to prefer / avoid?

A client of mine is running RAID 5 on Compaq, and is getting 100% disk i/o and frequent crashes. I haven't been able to look closely enough to establish whether it's the RAID 5 that's causing this, but anyway they're moving to a bigger box and planning to go RAID 5 again.

Conventional wisdom and past experience tells me this would be a disaster. Has the technology moved on so as to tip the scales?

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-Andy Kent-

Bristol, England

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