Re: Oracle Myths

From: D.Y. <dyou98_at_aol.com>
Date: 22 May 2002 15:31:16 -0700
Message-ID: <f369a0eb.0205221431.35be3d66@posting.google.com>

Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3CE953FE.A7538D88_at_exesolutions.com>...
> Down below in another thread TurkBear wrote: "IMHO, the size does not matter"
> with reference to disk size.
>
> And this reminded me of another common bit of "wisdom?" with respect to Oracle I
> thought I would throw into the mythology pot.
>
> For many years I was told that Oracle likes lots of small disks. That the ideal
> Oracle system was 100 2GB drives rather than 10 20GB drives. I haven't heard
> this repeated in awhile. It was only about 5 years ago I remember a SysAdmin
> whining that he could no longer get 4GB drives and would have to move Oracle to
> 9GB or 18GB drives.
>

I guess the thinking behind that argument was really to use disks with smaller physical size and thus less seek time, and that somehow got translated to less capacity.

> Any commments? Myth or wisdom?
>
> Daniel Morgan
Received on Wed May 22 2002 - 17:31:16 CDT