[rescue] DiskSuite configuration suggestions

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:58:39AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > My question is - i've got the four 18G drives left.  Whats the best 
> > software RAID level that I can use for a good balance of performance
> > and reliability?  I first thought RAID-5, but then have read some 
> > newsgroup posts that say it *sucks* with big drives/partitions...
> 
> I don't have experience with DiskSuite but have always been partial to
> RAID 10 or 0+1.  Each disk is mirrored by a second disk(level 1), then
> striped (level 0) for speed.  Downside is that 4x18GB drives = 36GB of
> space under such a scheme.

but far superior performance to raid5.  especially if this is a read heavy
system, mirroring is a big win in that case.

-brian