[geeks] RAID levels

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 12:54, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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..

RAID 5 probably offers the most bang for the buck given a 90% read
load.  I really hate to recommend RAID 5 though, it's such a pig about
CPU load.
	Greg