Hello Guys;
I would like to hear your advise on my disk data storage system
configuration and its hardware.
My system consist of two subsystems (currently on one machine, later on I
will dedicate separate Alpha for each of subsystems).
Subsystem I
Oracle DB with raw data about 200GB. Once the db is created it will not have
heavy update load. Only a few concurrent clients. The main purpose of this
db is to produce other databases. It will be done as a back-end process. So
speed does not matter much here. What matters is easy backup and recovery
and data safety and redundancy.
Subsystem II
That is a bunch of custom build static databases. Each of them about 30GB.
The databases are exclusively static (read only) and are generated by
subsystem I. They go online and have a very heavy read load. So speed
matters but redundancy and recovery does not since those databases can by
easily recreated by system I.
Currently available hardware:
Alpha Server DS20E + 1GB RAM + 9.1GB HD+
RAID200 (7 * 9.1GB HD)
Please advise on hardware I should buy (RAID, SCSI, controllers, etc) and
its configuration (RAID levels, file systems, etc). Of course having in mind
$$$ criteria.
Thank you in advance.
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Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 05:21:06 NZST