USING RAID and other disk drive issues.

From: Larry S. Dare <ldare_at_news.seattleu.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 1994 08:23:13 -0700
Message-ID: <38gjh1$b22_at_bach.seattleu.edu>

I am currently rethinking the layout of the logical layout of my physical disk drives. In the past I always tried to load balance the physical disk drives with the logical layout of my data files. With new disk drives and RAID technology for backup, this seems a mute point.

My issues are:
With a single logical datafile that is spread across multiple drives (this is a capability that exist with an HP Volume manager, and on NT) do I really never have to worry about I/O balancing?

I use to never have a logical volume space physical disk drives, in case a drive ever went bad I would only lose those data files on that drive, not the whole database. Now with RAID and VERY reliable disk drives is this so much of a concern?

Does using RAID slow down the performance of the database a appreciable amount?

Larry Dare
ldare_at_wdni.com

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Larry S. Dare
ldare_at_wdni.com

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