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Re: Is Raid 5 really that bad for Oracle?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:57:58 -0700
Message-ID: <1091678315.233435@yasure>


Connor McDonald wrote:

> Daniel Morgan wrote:
> 

>>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?
>>
>>--
>>Daniel A. Morgan
>>University of Washington
>>damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>>(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
> 
> 
> The next version of NFS (is it 4?) is touted to resolve a lot of the
> issues with NAS.  I know of a few clients (albeit hardly massive
> database activity) that are happily running oracle on netapp
> 
> cheers
> connor

One of which is the Oracle Corporation. Another a certain division of The Boeing company. Add to that, of course, the people that do the vote counting for American Idol.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 22:57:58 CDT

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