Re: Informix and RAID

Db Solution said: > I'm sorry but I think you are wrong. > > I repeat for small/medium installations RAID 5 is a OK solution. Back > in the day I personally used it and was satisfied with it. A lot of > customers are still using it are happy with it. Yeah, I guess small and medium sites don't matter if they lose data. You don't work for IBM do you? :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed sending to informix-list

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:30:35 -0000 (GMT), "Obnoxio The Chav" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote: > > >Db Solution said: >> I'm sorry but I think you are wrong. >> >> I repeat for small/medium installations RAID 5 is a OK solution. Back >> in the day I personally used it and was satisfied with it. A lot of >> customers are still using it are happy with it. > >Yeah, I guess small and medium sites don't matter if they lose data. You >don't work for IBM do you? :o) As a matter of fact, for some small sites it does not. They buy a new disk put back the night backup (log backups are too complicated) and a day later the data can be entered again. I have seen it happen several times. But I think that the reason that small sites use RAID5 is that the hardware sellers recommend it. :-( Joachim. -- This post is free post; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Joachim Verhagen (jcdverha@xs4all.nl) WWW http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/ (Science Jokes)