[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Thu Feb 7 14:34:08 CST 2008


>> One thing I'm still trying to work out is how to set the disklabel
>> drive parameters for a RAID.  What is the RPM of a RAID?
> for a simple stripe it should be easy.  rpm is rpm of individual
> disks;

What if they're different?  Say, one component on a 5400rpm spindle and
one on a 7200rpm spindle?

> but if your software and your drives support tagged command queueing
> it's probably all moot.

Yeah, worrying about RPM makes about as much sense as worrying about
c/h/s geometry does - "none", unless you're using fairly old disks.

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