Re: Raid Configurations and Oracle
From: Patrick Guimonet <patrickg_at_sequent.com>
Date: 1996/09/26
Message-ID: <324A5B52.6EE7_at_sequent.com>#1/1
Received on Thu Sep 26 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST
Date: 1996/09/26
Message-ID: <324A5B52.6EE7_at_sequent.com>#1/1
David Jordan wrote:
>
> We are using Silicon Graphics Challenge RAID arrays...although I
> would like to hear of experiences on any RAID-5 and/or RAID-1.
> Tell me the good as well as the bad!!
>
It is a well know fact that RAID-5 configurations have worse
performances than RAID-1 or RAID-0.
As far as I am concerned, I have seen with Oracle performance drops from 15% up to 100% for similar configurations.
Hope this helps,
Patrick Guimonet - Presales Engineer phone: (33 1) 41 45 01 84 Sequent Computer Systems - Paris fax: (33 1) 47 74 70 19patrickg_at_sequent.com
Received on Thu Sep 26 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST