Posted by boa on 08/20/06 12:26

* rcamarda wrote, On 20.08.2006 13:04:
> Boa:
> I cant speak of what happens when an index disaapears because of a
> drive failure.
> However, I steer away from raid-5 as the have overhead for writes.

I guess I was a bit unclear in the original post. The current version of
the database resides on a raid-5 array, the new/next version of our
database will be placed on a combination of raid-10 and raid-1 arrays.

So raid-5 is out, forever :-)

Boa

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