On Friday 19 February 2010 05:37:31 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking > for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. > > Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly > busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve: > > 1) Speed > 2) Reliability > 3) Ease of maintenance. > > Anyone care to take a punt at a layout?
In spite of Seagate's paper (... More than an interface) cautioning that multiple disks in a machine will make them fail quicker and be slower nobody seems to heed this. Is it BS or just like climate-stuff "I don't want to believe that so it can't be true" Anybody done any measurements ? James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
