RE: Oracle software on RAID 5

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 11:49:33 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003C13BA.20011109112025@fatcity.com>

We have been RAID 5 on Compaq Tru64 for many years now. Make sure you have a good-sized battery-backed RAM cache. Is your system more toward the OLTP or data warehousing type environment? We have never compared performance, but it seems to work fine for our needs.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

We are in the process of reorganizing and reconfiguring of our disk space in preparation for an Oracle 8.1.6 upgrade in production, and my sys admin wants to use RAID 5 for the drive on which the Oracle 8.1.6 software will be installed. Anyone know of a reason why RAID 5 would not be OK for the software? We are on Digital Tru64 UNIX V4.0G.

Thanks in advance,

Catherine A. LeBlanc
Database Analyst
Bates College

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