Re: HewlettPackard XP 256

From: edem <sztuka@wsisiz.edu.pl> > >I've seen article about RAID 5 and Informix goes very bad, and i have >question: >did anyone have experience with Hewlett Packard XP 256 and RAID 5 and >Informix? How are they working together? >We have XP256 and RAID 1, and our local HP service said that with RAID 5 >we will make 30 % better performance. >Disks in XP256 are used only for informix 7.31 databases on HPUX 11.0 >(V2500) databases size ~200GB I'm running on an XP256 with RAID 5 (and believe me, I tried not to go that way) and the performance is OK, but I can't say if it's better than RAID1. And it hasn't crashed. Yet. However, I'm not overly optimistic -- I asked HP all the wrong questions, and they stalled and never me gave me any answers. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.