Jesse,
If they'll loan you one for a test period & that test works out, Maybe. Now
if your SAN vendor is worth his/her weight in salt then they'll have a way to connect
that Xserve RAID system into their SAN. That way you get the best of both worlds.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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So a co-worker sends me an e-mail about Apple's just-announced Xserve RAID
with 3+TB for US $11K. After looking at Apple's page, I poo-poo it because
it's 7.2K spin ATA/100 drives, which I figure would lead to all sorts of
problems. I see today in Computerworld that it's being touted as "blazing"
with a max thruput of 210MBps. Hmmmm...I know the mid-range FAStT SAN we're
looking at is rated at about 800MBps theoretical max.
Just looking for confirmation/rebuttal that I don't think it would be wise
to load up an Xserve RAID with Oracle DBs -- even if the BAARF's nemesis is
avoided.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid
TIA,
Rich
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
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