Matt and Charles,
Thank you for your insight and comments. Now I just have to go and get
the money to get something that I want :)
Goran Jovanovic
The LAN Shoppe
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Hello Matt,
Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 11:44:08 PM, you wrote:
M I would just RAID 5 the whole setup. With your 6 drives, you
M get the read performance of 4 drives on any partition in this
M setup, plus you have a hot spare, and the write performance of
M close to 4 drives as well. This is a
Uh, sorry, I had thought that discussion was RAID-5 vs. RAID-1?
If someone is running RAID-5, I assume that it's hardware based. If so, then
that person could use the same hardware to configure a RAID-1 array instead
- so why even bother with software RAID then?
If the discussions is software
IMO, Software RAID is not the way to go on a busy machine. You will
save a measurable amount of overhead by going with hardware based RAID
of any sort since the controller should handle the processes associated
with the RAID. Note that this isn't the case with inexpensive RAID
controllers such
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IMO, Software RAID is not the way to go on a busy
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IMO, Software RAID is not the
way to go on a busy
machine. You will save a measurable amount of overhead by going with
hardware based RAID of any sort since
