Re: Spindles and big disks

KineticGuy wrote:
>
> I grew up on the philosophy that databases perform better with more spindles
> and by isolating hot areas to their own groups. This concept still makes
> sense to me.
>
> Now the minimum disk sizes available are 9 GB and hardware caching is the
> hot thing. What are folks doing with this issue when sizing new systems.
> If you have a 40GB database, it's getting harder to justify the costs for as
> many spindles versus the old 1GB - 4GB days.
>
> I'm interested in thoughts that people have on this.

You could always be vague to achieve what you want - something like "we need 9G for each set of database journal internal holding logs".

Then its up to management to work out that you're only going to put a 200M redo log on each of them..

:-)

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