Can somebody briefly explain the difference between RAID 1+0 and RAID 5 to
me. I'm ignorant when it comes to hardware.
If it's possible that is. Otherwise a couple of useful URLs that do it
would be great.
(I've got a quad xeon with 360gigs of useable harddisk space. RAID 5)
Thanks
Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Terrebonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:20 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Recommendations for offering free e-mail?
> Not to be "nit picking" but...
> Actually RAID 1 + 0 is the best solution.
> Mirroring -> Striping provides much better reliability by allowing the
loss
>
> Chris
> ----------------------------------------------
> Original Message
> From: "Len Conrad"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Recommendations for offering free e-mail?
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:53:30 +0100
>
> >
> >>I have a Dual PentiumIII 733, with 100 gigs Raid 5,
> >
> >RAID5 is the wrong RAID for mail I/O. It's the slowest RAID, esp when
> >writing 100's of 1000's of smallish files to the mailq, maillog file,
> >and mailboxes.
> >
> >Switch to RAID 0 + 1, striping across disks for speed and mirrored
> >disks for redundancy.
> >
> >Use one disk channel(s) for the mailbox storage and another disk
> >channel for the mailq/maillog actvity. And use 128 megs on-board disk
> cache.
> >
> >Len
> >
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