On Tue, May 12, 2009 9:44 am, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Unless you need that extreme redundancy, I would suggest starting over > using Linux software RAID beneath LVM. With 6 drives, I would do RAID > level 6 with all active in the array. Then, you're utilizing a decent > amount of disk space for your 6 drives, and should a drive fail, you'll > deprecate to RAID 5, which works well.
I would do raid 0+1. You waste 3 drives of space, but you get really good redundancy and improved performance (theoretically, anyway). -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
