Re: A DBA philosopical question

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:30:09 GMT
Message-ID: <RI6lf.36336$6e1.34002@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>

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>> If RAID 5 is all that bad, why is it so widely used and supported?
>
> If windows is all bad, why is it so widely used and supported?
>

I didn't know Windows was possibly considered all bad.

> RAID 5 is not bad just as fire is not bad ... when used appropriate.
>

That can be said just about any RAID.

> Except with Apple's Xserve RAID units with their dual XOR engines ...

I have used it on HP, Dell, EMC and even old IBM hardware. They all work great.

> RAID5 dose not belong under an Oracle database.

Now, that just sounds absurd.

> Why is it used so often
> then? Because most UNIX system admins. don't ask their counterpart DBAs
> what to do ... they just give them disk and say "make due with it."
> --

You mean most sys admins automatically use RAID 5 without consulting DBAs? I guess you have a reason for that too. Received on Mon Dec 05 2005 - 20:30:09 CST