Brenda, Stick with Raid 10 and as many drives as possible. It has a the performance advantage of mirrored disks for reads and no penalty for writes. The only downside that I see is that it is the most expensive; but what the heck, nowadays disk is cheap and racks are big. My 0.02.
/Scott Ballinger Pareto Corporation Edmonds WA USA 206 713 6006 On Nov 29, 2007 2:23 PM, Brenda Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
