Re: Informix on RAID-5

Posted in 1996

Koen Van der Elst — Wed, 10 Jul 1996 18:44:24 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>** Yes. Don't do it. You get totally blown away by the inefficiencies >of RAID-5. Do anything you have to do to get approval for double the >number of disks to implement RAID-0+1 instead. > I totaly agree ! Use RAID-1, get smaller, cheaper disks and lots of them. RAID-5 will kill of Informix. Koen