Re: Informix 7.X and RAID 5

akent@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Andy Kent") wrote: >RAID is, on the whole, very bad for performance on write-intensive >systems. If you look at the section on Recommended Disk Placement in the >OnLine Administrator's Guide you'll soon realise that there's no way some >of the suggested *physical* arhitectures can be achieved in a RAID >environment. Agreed! Wish it wasnt so. However, from a cost/benefit point of view, we decided to go RAID 5. Ed Kelley, Senior Specialist AT&T Network Systems - CIO Email: ekelley@mindspring.com or ekelley@attmail.att.com WEB page: http://www.mindspring.com/~ekelley/html/ekelley.htm