Re: Informix on RAID-5

On Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:38:52 -0400, "Chao Y. Din" <cdin@csc.com> wrote: > >I disagree! We are currently using RAID-5 with 60 GB hard disk from Sun and two of such servers are in >production since June 3rd. There are many other servers which are not in production yet. So I will >only address the two servers that are in production. > >We did not do fragmentation at all. Yet we have about 40 temps, two shifts. We are considering to add >another shift. The performance monitoring tool we used (SymBEL) complaint a lot about CPU overload, >slow internal hard disk. But it never complaint about the disk array. > RAID 5 will slow down your write-to-disk times on most Disk Arrays or Logical Volume systems. Koen