[geeks] RAID levels

[Joshua Fielden]

RAID-5 all the way, especially if it's a 64mb array...

JF

Bill Bradford quoth, on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:54:08PM -0600:
> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> To: geeks at mrbill.net
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i
> Subject: [geeks] RAID levels
> Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:54:08 -0600
> 
> So, I've got an A1000 full of 9G drives on the way to attach to
> the SunHELP server (sunfreeware archives, BIG BAD LIST SEARCH ENGINE,
> here we come!).  Suggestions on RAID levels?  I'l be using the latest
> version of SDS (4.2.1?).  Content will be mostly reads (~90%) with 
> the only writes being manual updates to web content, MySQL database for
> banner ads, and apache access logs...
> 
> so, 0+1 or 5?  Doing mirrored pairs of disks would be a waste of
> space..
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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