Re: RAID

From: <sybrandb_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 12 Dec 2003 01:03:11 -0800
Message-ID: <a1d154f4.0312120103.54b50dd8_at_posting.google.com>

vissuyk_at_yahoo.com (Vissu) wrote in message news:<2bedd6a7.0312111858.6eb46aaf_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> We are planning to host our database on Linux. Can any one share
> experiences on the following aspects:
>
> 1. Is RAID5 better or RAID 0 or 1 better ? (we have thosuands of
> queries running per day)
> 2. Is hardware disk controller better or LVM better?
> 3. any particular machine configuration to consider
> Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
>
> Viss

Please....................................................................

Not AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 Raid 5 is inferior for any writes, and you shouldn't have your online redologs on RAID 5
2 It depends. Software RAID will be slower, but you are more flexible with respect to actual disk configuration 3 We don't market hardware here.

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 10:03:11 CET