On aix, I prefer to make a 73GB striped volume, then mirror it to the other disks. Use the smallest stripe width (4k). If you are not on AIX, then I don't know if you can stripe or not.
Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > Question: > > Lets say I have 4 36gb disks. > > Is it better to create one db volume sized at 33gb on 2 disks, and mirror it > on the others, or should you create 2 16.5gb db volumes on each 36gb disk > and mirror those on the other 2 disks? > > Geoff Gill > TSM Administrator > NT Systems Support Engineer > SAIC > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Phone: (858) 826-4062 > Pager: (877) 905-7154 >
