Re: Need advice on RAID5

George Dau wrote:
>
> bobolink_at_mv.mv.com (Bobolink) wrote:
>
> >Rob Heemskerk (rheemske_at_gak.nl) wrote:
> >: Is there anyboby out there who has any experience with Oracle
> >: databases and RAID5 and would like to share it with me?
> >
> >One comment: Oracle doesn't like RAID, especially RAID5. We
> >learned that the hard way. Either mirror (RAID1) or don't use
> >RAID at all.
> >
> >
> We had problems with a 10G dbase on a Sparc Storage Array 100
> using the default raid config. Changed it to go over 10
> disks instead of 4; and fixed the stripe length and it's fine.
> Average writes are about 60ms with cache on.

Ummmmmm, 4 drives and 10GB of data??? What size drives are these? Or were the data files smaller and the total database size was 10gb??

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Neil Greene
Senior Oracle DBA / Unix System Administrator
SHL Systemhouse, Inc.  	LA Outsourcing Center 	
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