Re: Informix and RAID?

Posted in 1996

Jon C Vemo — 27 Sep 1996 12:28:22 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

At 08:57 AM 9/27/96 GMT, Derek wrote: [clipped] > >The issues with RAID don't stop here. Different RAID systems have very >different capabilities when it comes to handling disk and data errors. >Again, only last week one RAID vendor posted a query in one of the >database newsgroups asking if the RDBMS had its own disk bad block list. >Why? I guess they don't trust their data, so why should you? > Glenn/Derek - I would be interested in hearing more about Informix with RAID. We have looked briefly at RAID a few times, most recently a month or two ago. Most of what I see, is not promissing (Our h/w vendor just completed some benchmarks with another vendors raid h/w, and performance, for the most part, was poor). I'm always interested in hearing other opinions. Jon -------------------------------------- Jon C. Vemo jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA USA --------------------------------------