Re: [RAID 5]Which tower?

<jbmorla_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I plan to install Oracle 10G2 on Red Hat Linux.
> I'd like to fit 4 disk drives and a dvd-rw unit in a pc tower.
> The disks have to be SATA.
> I've searched the Antec site for instance, they give a lot of
> information on USB ports and cool fans, but nothing about how many hard
> disk they handle.
> Also the case has to be compatible with the motherboard with the intel
> 4xx compatible socket( 775) because Oracle then thinks it's got 2
> processors and hard/raid, .
> I've used a lot of RAID as DBA but never actually fitted one, so I
> think that I need 3 disk drives, and the fourth is for the redo logs.
> Can you help me on that one?
>

Have you given any thought about external, hardware raid? And stripe and mirror everything. RAID 0+1

Also Note: RAID 5 is better for reading. RAID 1 is better for writing.

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Andreas Sheriff
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Oracle 10g Certified Professional
Oracle 9i Certified PL/SQL Developer
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