james <j...@tigger.ws> writes: > 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.
Multiple spindles *does* increase the number of hardware failures your system will have. Using redundant RAID makes your system tolerant of hardware failures. Balancing these can be complex. :) Slower, though ... is a bit of a strange claim. Not because it is false, but because the answer is complex: you can, for example, double read speed and halve write speed, using a two disk RAID 1 array ... in the ideal case. Is that slower, or faster, or both? Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html