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Published inJan 2012
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ISBN-139781849682602
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Ciro Fiorillo
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Ciro Fiorillo

Ciro Fiorillo is an IT professional and consultant with experience of more than a decade in different roles (developer, analyst, DBA, project manager, data and software architect) among software industries. He has worked on different technologies and architectures, such as Oracle, SQL Server, Delphi, C# and .NET Framework, C/C++, Java, PHP, COBOL, Fortran, and Tibco. Ciro is currently employed as Lead Software and Data Architect with FinWin Srl, a software house specializing in banking and loans applications. As a freelancer he writes articles for websites and printed magazines about software and computing, participates in workshops, and teaches C++ and Fortran parallel programming with Intel Software tools. Ciro can be reached at ciro@cirofiorillo.com.
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Choosing different RAID levels for different Oracle files


In this recipe, we will see the characteristics of different RAID levels available in the market and learn what to choose for each different Oracle file type.

RAID is the acronym for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, a common configuration in a storage subsystem. It is used to obtain low-cost, fault-tolerant configurations for high performance in the non-mainframe market, by using multiple "inexpensive" disks in different configurations.

Getting ready

Despite the "I" in RAID, we need a minimum of two or three drives, depending on the RAID level we want to implement.

Every RAID level has different requirements and offers different performance and data integrity levels. In this recipe, we will illustrate these requirements for each RAID level.

There is a common requirement, that is, the RAID controller; it can be software-based at the operating system, firmware level, or hardware-based. The latter offers guaranteed performance and no...

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Ciro Fiorillo

Ciro Fiorillo is an IT professional and consultant with experience of more than a decade in different roles (developer, analyst, DBA, project manager, data and software architect) among software industries. He has worked on different technologies and architectures, such as Oracle, SQL Server, Delphi, C# and .NET Framework, C/C++, Java, PHP, COBOL, Fortran, and Tibco. Ciro is currently employed as Lead Software and Data Architect with FinWin Srl, a software house specializing in banking and loans applications. As a freelancer he writes articles for websites and printed magazines about software and computing, participates in workshops, and teaches C++ and Fortran parallel programming with Intel Software tools. Ciro can be reached at ciro@cirofiorillo.com.
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