Re: Informix SE 5 and Large Database

Posted in 1996

Jay Falck — Fri, 12 Apr 1996 16:35:53 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

cdr@xteam.co.at (Chris Drauch) wrote: > >Why? RAID5 should be faster, reliability is same. > The way it has been explained to me is that RAID level spends too much time trying to determine on which canister it should lay this chunk of data. These are high write to read ratio tables and even some Informix documentation recommended RAID-4 over RAID-5. Thanks for reaffirming my belief in artifically expanding the files. Jay Falck phone: (512)389-8962 R-cubed System Administrator fax: (512)389-8998 Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Central Reservation Center internet: jfalck@pobox.com