Oracle Chooses XServe RAID
Categories: Database Administration, Information Technology, Oracle, System Administration
It looks like Oracle has decideded to adopt Apple’s XServe RAID as a low-cost storage solution
Based on our own experience with Apple technology, Xserve RAID is a great match for applications running Oracle.
With the appetite of one to two petabytes annually Oracle is of course looking to control costs and the SATA-based Xserve RAID combines value, capacity, performance and availability. The current top configuration offers 7000GB on dual RAID controllers with redundant power and cooling for a mere $12999. Sure that’s the price of a small car, but it works out to only $1.86/GB for some serous industry-level storage.
Thanks to Zach for sending this on to me.
2 Responses to “Oracle Chooses XServe RAID”
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Donald K. Burleson Says:
September 13th, 2006 at 8:39 amHi Jon,
Wow, 500 gig monster disks! They hide the average latency too!
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Jon Says:
September 13th, 2006 at 8:54 amGood point Don, and good article too!
What I’m really wondering is how they are configuring them. Certainly the 8MB drive cache and 512MB controller cache will help, but what raid level and what are they attaching them to for machines?
