Re: Oracle 8 drive configuration

From: IANAL_VISTA <IANAL_Vista_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:38:44 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns9668BDACABFC6SunnySD@68.6.19.6>

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in news:1117661310.562895_at_yasure:

> Joe wrote:

>> I am just in the process of purchasing a new server for our Oracle 8
>> database. Our current server uses RAID 5. I want to move away from RAID
>> 5 for performance reasons. Does anyone have any configuration
>> suggestions for 10 72gb 15k rpm scsi drives not using RAID 5.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance

>
> Replace your storage with an Apple XServe RAID and you can get 5.6TB
> for under $13K US and still use RAID5 without performance degredation.
> The Apple array is fully compatible with Linux and other major operating
> systems. Think different. ;-) There is nothing wrong with RAID5 ...
> just your current disk configuration.

Earlier this week I came across a vendor who was selling a 1TB for $1K US! It contained 4 250GB drives that could be configured as Raid-0, 1 or 5. Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 20:38:44 CDT