4 x 15Krpm drives or 6 x 10Krpm drives?

DELL PE2500 W2000 Server, Oracle 8.17 standard, 10 users, 500 transactions per day (Accounting system)

Boot files, O/S, Oracle, Data, Indexes etc all residing on one logical volume.

Which is preferabe:

1. 4 x 15Krpm drives: 2 Mirrored Stripe sets of 2 drives each
2. 6 x 10Krpm drives: 2 Mirrored Stripe sets of 3 drives each

Thanks in advance! Received on Tue Feb 26 2002 - 17:30:01 CST