We are looking at a new server for our future needs (approximately 2nd quarter 2008) and Dell is recommending a RAID 6. Currently we are on UniVerse 10.1 but will probably go to 10.2 on the new server using RedHat Linux (whatever version suits our needs and is available at that time).
For the techies who know. Good? Bad? Opinions anyone? All of us here did a "What the heck is that when they brought it up" (including our Network Administrator). I read a few articles and it is basically a RAID 5 with 2 parity checks. That way if a drive fails and another drive fails or hits a bad sector on a disk while the recovery is in process, it keeps on going with no data lose while a RAID 5 would have loss of data. It has a performance hit of 25-30 % loss on writes as compared to Raid 5. We currently have RAID 1+0. Thanks all! Brenda L Price Senior Programmer Analyst Affiliated Acceptance Corporation Sunrise Beach, MO (800)233-8483 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
