Megaraid with brakes on?

[Stephan Wonczak]

   Hi Martin!

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Martin Sarsale wrote:

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> We're changing servers (not related to this issue) and we'll build a
> RAID10 in the new ones. What do you think it's better, assuming we
> want to have all the disks in a RAID?
> Hardware RAID0 and Software RAID1
> Software RAID0 and Hardware RAID1
> or Hardware RAID10 ?

   For your workload I would go with hardware RAID1 pairs (plus a global 
hotspare!), then concatenate these pairs in software using LVM. As others 
have said already, in your case triping (RAID0) would buy you no 
measurable performance increase.


 	Dipl. Chem. Dr. Stephan Wonczak

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