Re: 3Ware 7500-4 Slow
From: Francisco Reyes (francisco_at_natserv.net)
Date: 09/27/05
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:02:24 -0400 (EDT) To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> So-so. RAID-5 is okay on a IMAP reader box, it's not so good for a pure SMTP
> relay, especially one that does virus scanning.
For our SMTP I think we will have "small" machines with RAID-1
> If your DB claims to support a RAID-5
Will check. Will be using PostgreSQL.
> Better for small writes? Never.
> Although good hardware and lots of RAM to cache with can help a lot.
I inheritted a number of machines. I asked the owner and the controller
they got was with 2GB
>> How about RAID 10 for a DB server?
>
> This is a much better choice, close to ideal.
When the time comes I will try to do the argument to the owner.
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