Re: Oracle software on RAID 5

• Catherine LeBlanc <cleblan2_at_abacus.bates.edu>

> Anyone know of a reason
> why RAID 5 would not be OK for the software?

It works rather nicely if you tune the raid stripe to match the system page (usually 4k or 8k). A 4k page works nicely w/ 8 x 512byte chunks or 4 x 1K chunks, for example.

RAID5 will avoid data loss in the event of a disk failure. It will not allow you to keep running as though the disk had not failed; only mirroring allows that.

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