DA Morgan wrote:
> David Mathog wrote:
>
>> We are going to add another 200-300Gb of storage to
>> this system, probably with a U320 SCSI adapter in the
>> SunFire attached to some sort of rack mounted JBOD, using either
>> direct SCSI to SCSI or maybe SCSI to SATA. What I'm
>> trying to determine is, given that 100% of the data that
>> will be held on this new storage will consist of
>> Oracle files, is there any advantage, performance or
>> otherwise, in making those disks into another md volume?
>> Thoughts and/or suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David Mathog
>> mathog_at_caltech.edu
>
>
> For far less money you could purchase a 7TB SAN from Apple
> and have better performance plus reliability your current
> system can't offer. Contact me off-line at the University of
> Washington and I'd be glad to help you.
As I happen to have a 4500 Enterprise with 6 or 8 procs and
16GB memory and 3 fiber attached storage racks lying around,
am would be interested in any thoughts regarding the disk
layout.
Time permitting, I am willing to (have) investigate(d) if
different configurations do matter.
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
Received on Wed Oct 05 2005 - 13:43:09 CDT
