Re: Is Raid 5 really that bad for Oracle?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 07:22:45 -0700
Message-ID: <1091543000.433693@yasure>

Noons wrote:

> Connor McDonald apparently said,on my timestamp of 3/08/2004 10:15 PM:
>

>>
>> Result: - They've halved the number of spindles
>> - They've not enough disk space
>> but hey...at least we've got a SAN

>
>
> Wait until the IT damager decides to go to a NAS
> because it's "better value"...

The performance difference between SAN and NAS used to be of critical importance. I am not seeing enough difference these days to justify the huge difference in price. Is anyone having a different experience?

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Received on Tue Aug 03 2004 - 09:22:45 CDT