Re: Newbie: Drive Configuration

Based on your experience what is the best configuration for hard disks for Oracle? RAID 5 is, as you say, a bad idea. Oracle has nothing nice to say about RAID 0. RAID 0+1? What's your preference?

Thanks,

Daniel A. Morgan

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> "Nate Croston" <ncroston_at_cceb.med.upenn.edu> wrote in message
> news:3ABA1933.B4789239_at_cceb.med.upenn.edu...
> > We are currently configuring a Poweredge 4300 (Redhat Linux 6.1) for
> > Oracle 8i. The drive configuration is currently RAID 5 across 5 18Gb
> > drives. It has 256K Mb Ram and 2 450 Mhz processors.
> >
> > We are currently thinking about how the drives should be configured for
> > Oracle. We are wondering whether it is worthwhile to reconfigure or add
> > drives so that we can access multiple, independent drives to improve
> > performance. Presently, we anticipate no more than 20 users per Oracle
> > instance. We are starting out with one database, but anticipate growth.
> >
> > -Nate
> >
>
> RAID 5 is a big NONO for online redo log files, as has been posted here MANY
> times.
> I also wouldn't recommend running more databases on that system, as it is
> already tight.
>
> Regards
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
Received on Fri Mar 23 2001 - 00:46:03 CST