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Paul wrote:
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>>RAID 5 is not bad just as fire is not bad ... when used appropriate.
>>Except with Apple's Xserve RAID units with their dual XOR engines ... >>RAID5 dose not belong under an Oracle database. Why is it used so often >>then? Because most UNIX system admins. don't ask their counterpart DBAs >>what to do ... they just give them disk and say "make due with it."
Thanks. My fingers often move faster than my brain.
-- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)Received on Tue Dec 06 2005 - 13:34:03 CST