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Re: Sizing - RAC, storage subsystem EMC

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriole.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 06:11:39 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005A22A7.20030524061139@fatcity.com>


Rachel Carmichael wrote:
>
> It's much easier for the CTO and CIO to understand something like RAC
> (You won't lose your application) than "we need more disks to do RAID
> 10 instead of RAID 5 because the performance etc is better"
>
> I think I'm going to work on a paper on "reality checks" :)
>

Perhaps that the trick is to call RAID 10 'RAID ten' instead of 'RAID zero plus one'. It will look twice better than RAID 5 to bean-counters.

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Stephane Faroult
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