Request for comment

[CBeck@coradiant.com]

No, it doesn't.
A nice enough set-up but we've tried using Dell's controllers in RAID5 with
MySQL and their performance can be likened to <insert very bad word here>.
You would be much better off going RAID 10.
If you are not sharing the PVs across the machines and if you have a few
weeks to validate and give yourself peace of mind and some spare processing
cycles on the machines you might want to try software RAID 5 - now that
_really_ screams.
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We're buying a four way PE6650, partly because of the excellent support
on this mailing list.  I thought it might be prudent to solicit comments
from the list about our proposed configuration:

PowerEdge 6650
4 x 1.5 GHz/1MB cache Xeon
8 GB RAM
PERC3DC w/ 2 internal channels
3 x 146 GB 10K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI Hard Drive
    Set up as RAID 1 w/ one hot spare.
PERC3DC w/ 2 external channels (to connect to a PowerVault 220S)
Red Hat Linux 2.1 Advanced Server

PowerVault 220S
7 x 146 GB 10K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI Hard Drive
    Set up as RAID 5 with one hot spare

It's mainly for MySQL and multi-threaded applications that use MySQL.
Does this make sense?

Thanks,
Rob

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