Re: Hard disk configuration for fast write (Insert)

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:57:13 +0000, Sam wrote:

> Hi There,
> What is the best Hard disk (Raid or striping) configuration (With minimum
> number of hard disk) for a Oracle database with lot's of
> Insert but not that much of read (query), also this database dos not need to
> be in archive mode (Data is not that critical right now).
>
> Thank you in advance - Sam

For fast I/O, you want to maximize the number of disks and controllers and do striping and mirroring, aka RAID-10. Minimizing the number of disks is not smart, at least not if you need performance.

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