Re: Oracle and RAID

kavis_at_usa.pipeline.com wrote:
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> 3 and 5 negative on update/write operation, reliability is gained at the
> expense of performance or need large cache,
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> 0+1 best performance of all the RAID options, but doubles the # of
> disks...so more $

Fully agree. FYI Compaq were "quoting" a 15% drop in performance on their Array controllers with RAID 5 vs Raid 0/1. With their new controller they are "quoting" 5% drop.

So perhaps the type of RAID controller can affect performance as well..... Received on Tue Jul 09 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST