Re: raid 5 disaster
- From: Raj Jamadagni <rjamya@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:49:59 -0700 (PDT)
Hmmm good point .
Talking about disks ... now that this
(http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk_35_ide.php) new disk
is out (pricey) it would be fun to find how much it would benefit/cause more
trouble to Oracle
users ...
Maybe we should see a new study from James Morle
(http://scale-abilities.com/papers/Oracle_SSD_WP_Morle.pdf)?
Raj
--- Mogens_Nørgaard <mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The real sales people will always try to move to areas where there are
> much and easy money to be made. SAN's make fantastic profits (notice how
> some of them are easily discounted 90% without a problem), and they're
> easy to sell because everybody thinks they need them.
>
> As the price of the SAN's drop and it becomes possible to put iSCSI and
> SATA disks in them to get real, cheap disk systems, you will see the
> sales guys move to other areas (should happen within the next one to two
> years), leaving a bunch of technicians behind in their organisations who
> were forced to rubberstamp the RAID-5 configurations even though it was
> against their belief.
>
> We will also see the vendors coming out with superior, fantastic,
> unbelievably clever new models that can do RAID-10 - and with a very
> reasonable update price attached.
>
> Mogens
>
=====
Best Regards
Raj
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