Are you using PATA or SATA? When striping PATAs, it would be better to have each disk in the stripe on separate IDE ports. In SATA's, this is not much of a concern.
You may not need reliability now, but it's a step ahead of Murphy. --- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Miguel Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 18:55:37 > Subject: Re: [plug] Home Workstation RAID Setup Ideas? > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Michael Tinsay wrote: > > You should put your VM images in the striped disks, especially if the VMs > > are > heavy > > in disk IO. > > They aren't that heavy yet. Main requirement is to separate the host's > I/O from the guests', so it's alright (for now). > > > Since you have 3 disks, why not go for RAID 5 to get striping accross the > three disks? > > I don't need reliability on my home desktop (again, for now) > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
