On 25/06/04 19:26 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: <snip> > Yashpal> Our application needs a lot of Database I/Os , So > Yashpal> basically we are DB performance hungry what kind of RAID > Yashpal> system we should implement, RAID 5 ? > > Do NOT use software RAID at any level above 1 on a production server. > Get a hardware RAID5 card, or use RAID1 with LVM or RAID1+0. RAID 5 for databases is a bad idea anyway. RAID 10 is a much better idea, but that needs a minimum of four disks.
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