I would stripe and mirror everything and do the extra stuff I blogged about at http://tinyurl.com/cuhlpx. Cary Millsap Method R Corporation http://method-r.com http://carymillsap.blogspot.com On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Mir M. Mirhashimali <mhyder@xxxxxxxx>wrote: > I kinda like to spread my redo to several disks > > I have 4 disks and i write the redo logs as follows > > Disk1 - OS > G01_M1 on disk2 > G01_M2 on disk3 > G02_M1 on disk3 > G02_M2 on disk4 > G03_M1 on disk4 > G03_M2 on disk2 > > and so on > > this way redo is safe from disk failure. > > -- > Mir M. Mirhashimali > Oracle Systems Manager > Database Architecture, Enterprise Applications > Rice University > (713) 348 6365 > > > > -original message- > Subject: What would you do with 8 disks? > From: "dave" <david.best@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: 08-04-2009 07:49 > > Hey all, > > If you had 8 disks in a server what would you do? From watching this > list I can see alot of people using RAID 5 but i'm wary of the > performance implicatons. (http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/) > > I was thinking maybe RAID 5 (3 disks) for the OS, software and > backups. RAID 10 (4 disks + 1 hot spare) for the database files. > > Any thoughts? > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >