Experience with Intel X25-M 160GB and Oracle
- by derobert
We're considering building an Oracle database with 12 Intel X25-M G2 160GB drives in software RAID10. It'd be running Linux. Database gets some very heavy write activity during the early morning data load, other than that it is mostly read-only (and the read load is fairly minimal).
We're currently running on 11 150GB Velociraptors (also Linux software RAID10), and are hoping the X25-M will speed up the data load.
We currently have redo on different disks than the rest of the data.
I'm wondering a few things:
Any experience with using X25-M drives for databases? The X25-E are unfortunately beyond our budget.
Would it hurt to separate redo off to some magnetic (non-SSD) drives, say 2 (raid1) or 4 (raid10) Seagate Constellations?