On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:26 -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > I'd prefer to buy fewer, higher-capacity drives (300+ GB). Any > > experience with the new 500's? > > I currently have 3 of the 500GB Hitachi's in a RAID-1 configuration > using linux software RAID. So far, so good. > > In response to someone else's question, the mostly random reads are > pretty well balanced between the disks, judging from atsar reports. > Adding the third drive definitely helped read performance. > > -Jeff
With 3 drives I would of opted for a RAID5. More storage and the performance won't be too bad. Except writes would be somewhat slower. Probably not to noticable on a desktop. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
