Re: best Hardware for 8i

In article <8dmv1g$mo0$1_at_crusher.de.colt.net>, Kay Liesenfeld <kliesenfeld_at_databecker.de> wrote:
>100 GB Harddisks (RAID 0).

Just say "no" to RAID 0! If you are just striping your data, very bad things will happen when (not if) you lose a drive. Use RAID 0+1 unless you're rebuilding your database nightly off of some other source and don't care about downtime.

>...to use MORE CPUs than FASTER ones (unless we don't have Oracle EE with
>parallel querying, do make more than 2 CPUs any sense)?

"Standard" Oracle will take advantage of multiple CPUs. More/slower vs. fewer/faster depends greatly on your workload.

			Yours Truly,
			Jeffrey Boulier

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