RE: EMC vs. ordinary RAID 5

Posted in 2000

Paul Watson — Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:59:32 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The Hitachi units are very good, you used to able to run them in RAID1 but it was very wasteful on disk, you ended up with two hot spares per tray Paul Watson # WFSoftware Ltd # If it was easy Tel: +44 1436 674729 # everybody could it Fax: +44 1436 678693 # do it www.wfsoftware.com/informix # -----Original Message----- From: michael martin [mailto:michael_martin@komatsu.co.jp] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 1:17 AM To: Stefan Weideneder Cc: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: EMC vs. ordinary RAID 5 Hi Stefan, >Finally, Art wrote a lot of good articles in >this NG. But Art is not responsible for your >performance True; point taken. I'm way out of my depth on this (as usual) so I probably should have stayed out of it. But I just happened to have that article handy. Actually we now have a new Hitachi configured RAID5 (management decision) so I am living with RAID5 for better or for worse. Best regards, Michael