I posted about maid, a few weeks ago. Vendors are posing it as a solution for near-line storage. Ian -----Original Message----- From: Paul Drake [mailto:discgolfdba@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:13 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Raid 50 --- "MacGregor, Ian A." <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While, I have enjoyed the frivolity, there is something to cosider, > If = Oracle cannot perform well enough on Raid5 systems, then it may > be = > unsuitable for very large databases. When one has > to store petabytes = > worth of data in both online and near-line storage, with hundreds of = > terabytes online, power consumption is a significant cost. Systems = > with the need to store exabytes worth of data are not far off. > > This is not to say there are no performance penalties associated with > = using Raid 5 and Oracle. If CERN's Large Hadron Collider projects = > picks Oracle to store its event data, I'll bet they use Raid 5.=20 > > Ian MacGregor > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center > ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ian, I'll bet that they use MAID, a massive array of idle disks. the appearance of such an acronym was new to me. unfortunately, I'm not kidding. Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------