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Re: Is Raid 5 really that bad for Oracle?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:09:42 +0100
Message-ID: <4112a20a$0$2920$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>


"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:411208c1$0$4754$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> omlet apparently said,on my timestamp of 5/08/2004 6:43 AM:
>
> > again disk drives and disk units are prone to errors!
>
> so are tapes. Ever had that sinking feeling when the "backup tape"
> is unreadable? More common than they tell you...

about one in 4 to one in 8 IIRC.

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
Received on Thu Aug 05 2004 - 16:09:42 CDT

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