RE: Solid State Disks for Databases

  • From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:11:52 +0800

Quoting "Gogala, Mladen" <MGogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Actually, once upon a time in Lubljana Slovenia, I benchmarked a system
> called Wyse 6000 against SGI Indigo2.
> Another member of this list was playing for the competition. I did put redo
> log files on a RAM-disk and it did make
> a lot of difference, but it has happened a long, long time ago (RDBMS
> 6.0.36) in a galaxy far, far away.

Still made a difference as late as 8ir3, last time I had a chance 
to test a SSD on the redo logs.  Where IMHO it can make a 
significant difference: if the system does a lot of db writes 
(update/insert/delete) and it's not practical/economic to dedicate 
an entire huge disk (EMC raid or not is immaterial) to redo files.

Outside of those conditions, pot luck really.  Like Gary said:
measure and derive would be the way to go.
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