On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:37:24AM -0700, Steven Roussey wrote: > > Don't stripe too many. More sets to stripe increase performance, but > syncing the rotations of many drives degrades performance. So there > are diminishing returns. For our calculations, 3-4 mirrors were > sufficient. Most of our RAID sets are six drives (3 stripe of 2 > mirror). For one, we wanted more space and it has 8 drives > (4x2). Don't forget to install spares at the same time. I like using > external SCSI disk enclosures, so you can swap servers with less > headache.
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