RE: RAID Question

If the disks are striped by the OS it only gives me 8 volume groups. Each volume group consists of 2 disks. Placing a table across 4 groups will only give me two sets of groups (4 disks) to work with. I can't point to a disk individually unless it is its own volume group. I guess what I am trying to get at is if its better for the OS to do the striping or should Informix do the striping with fragmentation. I believe, looking at all my options, that it is better for Informix to handle it. Using 16 36GB disks that are machine mirrored what's the best configuration for a DSS environment?? I am interested more in disk I/O performance rather than fault tolerance. (I guess that would be summing it up, eh?) Thanks for you help, Benny Lago Alliance Entertainment, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 2:07 PM To: benlag@aent.com; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: RE: RAID Question From: Benny Lago <benlag@aent.com> > >I am aware I can do both but wouldn't it be better to have more disks wot >work with. > >If the disks are striped by the OS I won't as many logical volumes to >point >to. Why not? ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com