Re: RAID configuration for optimal performance

Posted in 2000

S. Kipper — Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:33:25 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi, > Does anyone know what type of RAID is proposed by informix? To be more > precise, is it possible to achieve the same performance as RAID 1+0 > (mirroring + stripping) with RAID 5? No way. Raid 5 $uck$ bigtime. Lots of fast disks and running with attached indexes will give you way better performance. > Is it true that informix suggests that we do not use RAID 5? I can't imagine that they would recommend RAID 5