Re: [Exadata] How do you use FlashDisk ?

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:53:12 -0700
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On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com>wrote:

> Flash disks for WRITE operations are actually not that fast. I don't have
> the performance numbers here, but you really don't buy anything in terms of
> write performance with flash disks. So I would not recommend them for a disk
> group that will contain, say, online redo logs.
>

Interesting observation Robert.

From the two guys at LSI that test flash memory with Oracle:

"Online redo logs are best handled by Hard Disk Drives because of the sequential writes"

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com

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