[windows2000] Re: RAID

  • From: "Costanzo, Ray" <rcostanzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:58:12 -0400

There are servers that are specifically designed for database servers.
They have battery backup write-caching disk controllers.

It all depends on what you're going to do with the database.  Is it
write-intensive?  RAID 1 is good for redundancy, and has mediocre
read/write performance.  RAID 5 will give you good read performance but
weak write performance.  Of course, RAID 0 is good if you want to
participate in the DBA's X-Games.  If at all possible, go with RAID 10.
Then you get good read and write, and redundancy.  Of course, it'll cost
a little more.

Ray at work

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Beckett [mailto:Bill.Beckett@xxxxxxxxxx] 



Just wanted to get the lists opinion on this. 
We have RAID 5 for several of our servers. However, our database server
is going to be rebuilt and I have read several articles saying that RAID
5 is not a good choice for a DB server. What would you guys recommend
for a DB Server?


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