Re: RAID5 question, take 2

On Sunday 10 June 2001 20:15, Gary Weber wrote:

> The question is, and I promise this is the very last time I post it: given
> 9 hard drives dedicated for RAID5, should data reside on 6 drives via
> volume group A and indexes on the other 3 drives via volume group B, or
> should data and indexes be placed on all 9 drives via one volume group? The
> data is absolutely static.
>
> Gary

Given the choices, I would consider whether the access is heavily weighted towards full table scans.

If so, the 9 disk array would sound good.

If more heavily weighted toward table access via indexes, then separating the data and indexes would get the nod.

HTH Jared

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