Re: 18.2GB Hard Drive

Mark D. Stock wrote: > > Carroll, Kevin wrote: > > This is absurd. Am I to understand that > > Informix cannot handle larger drives? Please help. > I always recommend buying lots of small disks, for performance. In terms > of performance, I WOULD ignore the 4.2GB, but if you need to use it, > then create 6 x 2GB partitions for RAW access, then mount the remaining > 6.2GB and use COOKED chunks. Not good for performance, but utilises the > disk. > If you haven't paid for the disk yet, go and swap it for some smaller > ones. ;-) Actually, Mark, I agree with you. That is a great and sober recommendation. Replacing that 18.2GB drive with 9 2.1GB drives or 5 4.2GB higher performance drives will allow Carol to stripe the drives and increase performance by serveral times. I took Carol's problem too literally myself and did not deal with the whole issue of why use an 18G drive in the first place, beyond cost of course. Art S. Kagel