Re: Database and RAID

Posted in 1998

Albert Wisse — Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:28:57 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Udo, Use stripped disks with mirroring, RAID 0+1 with a good volume manager it is easy to implement and to maintain and performance is more and less linear with the number of disks in the strip set. Regards, Albert Wisse Udo Scholz wrote in message <6m2mvv$co44@ginfizz.bb-data.de>... >Does anyone have practical experiences in using RAID systems and >database servers? > >Is it either better to use mirrored harddisks and distribute datas wich >the advanced features of the according database server (for instance >Sybase ASE) or simplify this overhead by using a RAID5 system? > >Interesting facts are: performance, security, handling and so on. > > >Thank you for useful answers, hints ... >-- > >Udo Scholz > >BB-DATA GmbH >Planung & Projekte / Datenhaltung (PPDA) >Brunnenstrasse 111, DLZ A2.32, 13355 Berlin >email: udo.scholz@bb-data.de >Tel.: (030) 245 - 54472 >Fax: (030) 245 - 580 54472 oder 245 - 54921 > >--