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From: Wayne Straughn <Wayne.Straughn_at_blpc.com.bb>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:49:08 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005514A7.20030219064908@fatcity.com>

I'm curious as to how others with smaller databases deal with it as well..

You can't even buy under 18GB hard disks for some brands of servers anymore.. My production databases are all relatively small i.e. 5 GB - 7 GB, but yet I'd still want several independent physical disks to spread the I/O load...

On test servers, the 'extra' space is easy to justify because you often create several instances for different purposes... But on your production box it can seem a bit excessive.

I justify it in part by pointing to the increased flexibility afforded.. e.g. you could do cold backups to disk in minutes and then copy the backed up

     files to tape after the database is restarted.

Wayne Straughn

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Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi,

I was wondering how DBAs are coping with these new large disks that are available....you can purchase 36gb, 72gb, etc. You can fit a whole database on one of these. But with all the performance and redundancy considerations, you wouldn't....so what do you do with the free space? Or how do you tell your bean counter that out of that 72gb you are only going to use 10gb so you need a couple of these?

Rgds, Ken Heng

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