Hi, The suggestion given to go for 18Gigs HDD(SCSI) is a good one. I have seen in H/W
that what u get today u will not get tomorrow. I mean they become obselete. H/W vendor
will say that they nolonger manufacture the same.
Ultra fibre scsi is a technology HDD maufactures use for I/o transfer. Y
Kevin,
You did not state the OS you will be using. If it is a flavor of LINUX them 3ware
makes a ISA card that will handle disk drives like they were SCSI drives. You save the
high cost of disks and spend it on the card. But I bought 2- 40 GIG WD drives last
week for $109.00 each and put them i
1. Most all drives have cache on the drive.
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
both are frozen."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot
-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:06 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Kev,
I was thinking the 18's where a better idea now that everyone agrees.
However, I can't go with more than 4 drives unfortunately, this is on a Dell
Precision 410. I could try and add an additional scsi adapter, but I am not
sure that I would have a place for the drive, unless I went external.
Kev,
1. I have never heard of a cache directly on the hard drive (Which
certainly doesn't mean it doesn't exist). I have heard of a cache on the
controller for the HD!
2. I assume that you are looking at upgrading one of the Dell Workstations,
yes? If so, I highly recommend calling Dell and
18Gb with the cache all the way, I would recommend Seagate for this. The
cost difference is small between the 9Gb and 18Gb plus 18Gb will be
replaceable for longer time than 9Gb.
I would recommend more than 4 disks though. Specially if your implementing
raid of some sort.
If at all possible.
Now that sounds like a fantastic idea, now all that I have to do is figure
out how you do that?:0 Kev
-Original Message-
McDonald
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:47 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
if you get 18's then you can just use the outer 9G
portion of each drive to ge
if you get 18's then you can just use the outer 9G
portion of each drive to get better performance.
The trick then is convincing management when more disk
is needed that you don't want to use the inner portion
hth
connor
--- Kevin Kostyszyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi
all,
> Just thou
