Re: Is Raid 5 really that bad for Oracle?

Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
> Noons wrote:
>
> > Connor McDonald apparently said,on my timestamp of 3/08/2004 10:15 PM:
> >
> >>
> >> Result: - They've halved the number of spindles
> >> - They've not enough disk space
> >> but hey...at least we've got a SAN
> >
> >
> > Wait until the IT damager decides to go to a NAS
> > because it's "better value"...
>
> The performance difference between SAN and NAS used to be of critical
> importance. I am not seeing enough difference these days to justify
> the huge difference in price. Is anyone having a different experience?
>
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

The next version of NFS (is it 4?) is touted to resolve a lot of the issues with NAS. I know of a few clients (albeit hardly massive database activity) that are happily running oracle on netapp

cheers
connor

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