Joe wrote:
> I am just in the process of purchasing a new server for our Oracle 8
> database. Our current server uses RAID 5. I want to move away from RAID
> 5 for performance reasons. Does anyone have any configuration
> suggestions for 10 72gb 15k rpm scsi drives not using RAID 5.
>
> Thanks in advance
Replace your storage with an Apple XServe RAID and you can get 5.6TB
for under $13K US and still use RAID5 without performance degredation.
The Apple array is fully compatible with Linux and other major operating
systems. Think different. ;-) There is nothing wrong with RAID5 ...
just your current disk configuration.
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Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 16:30:41 CDT
