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From: SAMPATH <sampath@gulfins.com.kw> > > We're having IDS 7.3 running on Alpha 4100. All DBspaces are raw >partitions and mirrored. We are planning to move the disks out of >machine and put them as a disk array with clustering software from >Compaq. 5 disks + 1 emergency disk. Has anyone tried this before? If one >of the disks with dbspaces fails, will the emergency disk take over with >Informix? An early solution will be highly appreciated Sounds suspiciously like a RAID 5 solution, and I don't like RAID 5. RAID 5 does not verify the parity it writes, and I've seen a corrupted RAID 5 let go big time. It was very ugly. NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! NO RAID 5! ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com