Re: Raid 10

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 07:38:43 -0700, Edward Bidinotto <edbid@cobe.com> wrote: >Does anyone have any stories to tell on setting up Raid 10 with >informix? >We have MTI 9300 raid and are running infx7.23... we tried setting up >informix on raid 5 at one time and it ran like a dog. I spoke with the >MTI rep and he was saying to perhaps use Raid 10 for the write intensive >tables and logs and raid 5 for the other stuff. > >Any comments from anyone currently using raid on hpux 10.20? >We are going to be testing out a gladiator array shortly on an HSC >bus...should be interesting. > >Tks in advance >Ed RAID 5 is guaranteed poor write performance. I'd go with RAID 1 (mirrored disks) or RAID 1/0 (mirrored groups). It'll take more disk, but your performance should be much better. Jeff Kalchik ---------------------------------------- Views expressed are my own, not necessarily 3COM's.