Can not also be seen as http://tinyurl.com/sane-storage-configuration Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Cary Millsap <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >