Re: Disk Drives

From: Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:43:27 +0100
Message-Id: <1107240207.25001.8.camel@dbalert199.dbalert.nl>

Raid? Depends on the raid-type you have. RAID-F hurts. Baarf! Read www.baarf.com.
Other interesting reading in
http://www.scaleabilities.co.uk/papers/scalingOracle8i.pdf, chapter 2. Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 06:46, Burton, Laura wrote:

> We have a new server which has two raid arrays and controllers. The
> disks on each controller look as if it is one. I read the info about
> having the system datafile on a different drive that the logs, data
> different from indexes. I have also read about having too many logical
> drives will hurt the response time. So in my scenario do I just have
> maybe 2 logical drives per unit? One per unit? Or does logical really
> hurt?

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