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<Harry_Boswell_at_deq.state.ms.us> wrote in message
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> OK..... having read through (most of) these replies, I'm wondering
> what I should make of them. I'm currently running RAID 5 - 2 A1000s -
> and there's no money to go buy new disk systems. So, do I take from
> this that I should reconfigure to RAID 0, or RAID 1? Should I put my
> redo logs on non-RAID drives? Should I tell my network guys, who are
> wanting to marry their Wintel servers and my Solaris servers "over my
> dead body"?
Impossible to tell. I'd ask these questions though.
I would suggest though that anyone who says that X is always bad (where X is RAID5, windows, sqlserver, SAN, etc) is wrong.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.comReceived on Fri Aug 13 2004 - 15:07:30 CDT