Re: OT: USB/Firewire external hard drives for 10g RAC testing - any recommendations?
- From: Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle-L (E-mail) <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:16:55 -0500
We do a lot of our non-software-development RAC work with Firewire
drives and the LaCie are the best, both in terms of performance and
stability.
The only real requirements are that the sbp2 chipset on the firewire
drive supports multiple login, which most these days do. USB will not
work, by the way, only Firewire (though the combo firewire/USB drives
should work no problems). The preferred drive we use is the LaCie
porsche:
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10384
in varying sizes. The big benefits are the small form factor, while
still being a normal hard drive, and the stackability. It's also quiet
enough for our developers to share their desks with them without
complaining.
The last note is that if you're using redhat es/as 3, I'd recommend
upgrading to the latest version of the kernel, as we saw a number of
high I/O stability problems when dealing with multiple firewire drives
in our testing environment. Upgrading to (looks at a node) 2.4.21-20
(the unsupported tree) fixed that entirely for us.
Thanks,
Matt
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GridApp Systems
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On Dec 3, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Paul Drake wrote:
> Need some space in a hurry, and I'd like to be able to play with RAC
> over USB/Firewire.
> This article
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/
> hunter_rac.html#Hardware%20&%20Costs
> recommends a Maxtor Onetouch unit.
>
> Anyone care to share their experiences?
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul
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