Re: Informix and RAID ...OOPS!

Glenn Brackenridge wrote: > > Sorry, the page has been put back. http://www.baydel.com/informix.html > > apologies. > > With regards to Informix saying RAID is not good, this comes from testing > Informix carried out on another RAID vendors system, discovering that JBOD > was better than RAID5 and RAID3. > > Even the Informix storage specialist I spoke with used this document as his > bible, so no wonder that the advice was given. Informix people dont't have > the time to test every RAID system so they take a shortcut and use the only > information that they have - i.e. the internal Informix paper which says use > JBOD. When we pointed out that they had only tested one RAID system they > got embarrassed. > But...they still use the paper! > > GB > ---------- I'm so sorry. I have no idea why an Informix specialist told you that a RAID system is bad without running a test on the system. This guy should get embarrassed. But that's what I said. Once he made a bad experience, he concludes that the system must be always bad. Best regards, Stefan