Re: Performance RAID setup...

From: Josh Paetzel (josh_at_tcbug.org)
Date: 08/26/04

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    To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:14:15 -0500

    On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:10, you wrote:
    > Mitch (bitblock) wrote:
    > [ ... ]
    >
    > > One floating consideration is the hard drive configuration and
    > > the relative performance.
    > >
    > > I could go with 6 73GB 15000 RPM drives in two RAID 5 sets, or I
    > > could go with 6 146GB 10000RPM drives in RAID mirrors.
    > >
    > > The goal is to provide a NFS / SAMBA server for 4 - 20
    > > application servers.
    > >
    > > Anyone have any value for dollar comments?
    >
    > Unless your volumes are read-only, or close to it, RAID-10 (or
    > "-1,0") will give you significantly better write performance than
    > RAID-5. You might also give small SAN devices a thought; in
    > particular, the Xserve RAID box has a very good price/performance
    > point.
    >
    > I don't have experience with the SRCU42L SCSI controller, so you
    > might want to do a search about it and FreeBSD, and/or ask your
    > vendor.

    Of course the Xserve RAID is IDE drives only to the best of my
    knowledge. ;) 

    -- 
Thanks,
Josh Paetzel
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