Re: Informix and RAID?

Posted in 1996

David Williams — Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:48:49 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <91a7cc$a151c.3a5@news.leg.wa.gov>, Test IT <test@test.com> writes >The folks from Informix told me that running Informix on a box in a >RAID configuration is not the best idea. They say that performance >drops. Is anyone running Informix 7.11 or > on a RAID box? We're >talking less than 100 tps and less than 20GB of data. If you >converted from not RAID to RAID, did you see a big performance drop? > >If people aren't using RAID how do they deal with fault tolerance? >Morroring? I'm about ready to go production and I'm at the point >where I need to buy a production server. I don't want to screw up >Informix, but I sure like the warm and fuzzy feeling of RAID. > >Thanks for any comments/suggestions > >Jason Fry >Washington State Legislative Service Center >fry_ja@leg.wa.gov > > > The only really BIG site I worked on (>100 users) used mirroring. -- David Williams