Re: Q: Is RAID/striping good with Oracle???

From: Bill Meskill <meskillw_at_ncr.disa.mil>
Date: 1996/08/27
Message-ID: <4vuv3h$36h_at_lal.interserv.com>#1/1


I'm running RAID 5 on my HP/UX prod server and wondering why you said to stay away from it... Can you elab your experience/finding?

Thanks
Bill Meskill

meskillw_at_ncr.disa.mil

>In response to the earlier post. RAID 0+1 (mirrors and stripes)i s what you
 need to get the best
>performance. RAID 0 protects your data from a disk failure and give
 additional platters to read
>data from. RAID 1 spilts the logical volume among multiple physical devices
 to reduce i/o bottlenecks. Stay the hell away from RAID 5 for D
>
Received on Tue Aug 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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