Re: Disk Sizes

Bill Weaver wrote: > > I have mostly 4 Gig drives in my system with a few 2 Gig drives. I'm looking to upgrade the 2 > Gig drives to 4. My vendor suggested I get 9 Gig drives instead (price per Gig actually is > cheaper for 9 than 4 now since 4's aren't used as much and they aren't making as many). I seem > to remember a discussion on this list a while back that indicated that it would be better to > have the 4 Gig drives over the larger drives but for the life of me I can't remember the > reasoning. Can someone enlighten me? Is it simply that if you have more smaller drives then > you can spread the work out more among the drives or are there other reasons as well? Thanks > for your help! Yeah, that was pretty much it; maximise spindles. Given the choice, I'd go for more smaller drives. Yes, that does work out more expensive, but gives you more tuning options. I actually heard an Informix guy from the States once, say to a client; just because you have a 4 Gb drive, doesn't mean you have to use more than the centre 2 Gb! :-) Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com http://www.informix.com/idn |///// / //| |http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+