Re: Terabytes + database on NT

From: andrey <andrey_at_roz.ru>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:33:55 +0300
Message-ID: <98ndtq$2rab$1@josh.sovintel.ru>

just purchase PIII 800, NT, and ora 816
plug in 10 100Gb IBM disks and youv got it

same old simple song for unix ?

""Anurag Minocha"" <aminocha_at_herold.com> wrote in message news:EBBA6D3A81229C42981E3AEA79BF5A4E111236_at_jshemail.herold.com...
> Hi,
> We are in the process of deciding the operating system to hold our
database.
> It is expected that the database will be in Terabytes and will keep on
> growing at a very fast pace.
>
> Is NT the right o/s for this or we should move to unix. If unix then which
> flavor of Unix.
>
> I must tell you that the dataase will mainly consist of scanned images.
> Another solution which is possible to limit the size of the database is to
> store the path of the images in the database and store the images in the
> file system. In this way we can use NT, but I am not sure of the side
> effects of this.
>
> We are thinking of 8i or later.
>
> Please help.
> Thanks
> Anurag
>
>
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