Re: raid 5 disaster

From: Raj Jamadagni <rjamya_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:49:59 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20040816154959.3717.qmail@web50007.mail.yahoo.com>

Hmmm good point .

Talking about disks ... now that this (http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk_35_ide.php) new disk is out (pricey) it would be fun to find how much it would benefit/cause more trouble to Oracle users ...

Maybe we should see a new study from James Morle (http://scale-abilities.com/papers/Oracle_SSD_WP_Morle.pdf)? Raj

Mogens_Nørgaard <mln_at_miracleas.dk> wrote:

>
> The real sales people will always try to move to areas where there are
> much and easy money to be made. SAN's make fantastic profits (notice how
> some of them are easily discounted 90% without a problem), and they're
> easy to sell because everybody thinks they need them.
>
> As the price of the SAN's drop and it becomes possible to put iSCSI and
> SATA disks in them to get real, cheap disk systems, you will see the
> sales guys move to other areas (should happen within the next one to two
> years), leaving a bunch of technicians behind in their organisations who
> were forced to rubberstamp the RAID-5 configurations even though it was
> against their belief.
>
> We will also see the vendors coming out with superior, fantastic,
> unbelievably clever new models that can do RAID-10 - and with a very
> reasonable update price attached.
>
> Mogens
>

Best Regards
Raj

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