Re: Oracle performance on different drive types.

From: Tony de Lange <tony.delange_at_alusaf.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 10:11:12 +0200
Message-ID: <6imh8n$lc1$1@news01.iafrica.com>

I have read a comment on this newsgroup before saying something like "RAID5 and performance - a contradiction in terms".

I have also taken some of my database from RAID5 to mirroring and had up to 400% improvement in performance. I suppose a lot of factors should be considered and configuration done properly.

Eric Ladner wrote in message <354E1E01.3E97A8C3_at_pasms.chevron.com>...
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone have any numbers or gut feelings of Oracle performance on
>different drive configurations? I'm specifically looking for
>comparisons between regular drives, striped drives and RAID 5 drives.
>
>Is there a performance hit or gain for these groups?
>
>Eric Ladner
>Chevron Products Company
Received on Tue May 05 1998 - 03:11:12 CDT