On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:40:35 +0200, Vincent van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > About RAID types: the fastest RAID type by far is RAID-10. However, this will > cost you a lot of useable diskspace, so it isn't for everyone. You need at > least 4 disks for a RAID-10 array. RAID-5 is a nice compromise if you want as > much useable diskspace as possible and still want to be redundant. RAID-1 is > very useful for small (2-disk) arrays.
Note that while raid 10 requires 4 disks, you get the space of 2 disks. This is the same ratio as for raid 1. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
