Re: 18.2GB Hard Drive

joana@vcd.hp.com (Joan Armstrong) offerred: +Mike Segel writes: +> +>Sigh, +>There are several reasons that one would want to use a large drive. +>First, lets say that the avg seek time is not revelant. +>(You get better performance if you have multiple smaller drives. More +>heads, +>more arms, etc ...) +[and more good points deleted for brevity] + + We have experienced shorther MTTF for the larger disks possibly due + to higher access rates. And with a single drive, you have a single point of failure. With many drives, you could lose one and the database could keep going (losing access to some of the data, of course). Dave ** Dave Kosenko <davek@summitdata.com> ** Director of Training Services (732) 469-4070 ** Summit Data Group (an Informix Authorized Education Center) ** Find my advice useful? Let me teach you everything I know about ** Informix. Sign up for OFFICIAL Informix training at SDG. ** For details, see http://www.summitdata.com/training