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Re: RAID 5 vs. RAID 0+1 vs. RAID 1+0

From: Richard Foote <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:30:47 +1000
Message-ID: <9l529.50082$Hj3.148736@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>


Hi Zeus (never spoken to a real God before ...

This is a really common question.

May I suggest a search of the Google archives will give you all the advice you can handle.

Regards

Richard
"Zeus" <Big_guy_at_gods.com> wrote in message news:qK229.76665$v53.3506867_at_news3.calgary.shaw.ca...
> I know Oracle recommends RAID 0+1 or 1+0 for OLTP systems (particularly
for
> small, random writes) because of the RAID 5 write penalty. Does anyone
have
> any direct experience or information on how big the difference is or how
> many concurrent users you'd need to have to make a significant difference?
>
> Also, what do people think of the 'SAME' (stripe and mirror everything)
> methodology where you mash everything together in the same stripe?
>
> TIA
>
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>
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Received on Thu Aug 01 2002 - 02:30:47 CDT

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