[TriLUG] Need advise.

[jeremyp at pobox.com]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Rev. Christian J Hedemark wrote:

> Jeremy writes:
> > My defintion of reasonably big for a database server would be:
> > at least 36 GB SCSI HD, with hardware RAID of course  (RAID 1 ideal)
> > at least 1 GB RAM
> 
> Why not RAID 0+1 as "ideal"?  Honestly curious about this.

Should have clarified, I meant that RAID 1 is better than RAID 5,
especially for a database server.  RAID 0+1 would be even more ideal, but
more expensive than RAID 1.

--Jeremy