which raid option in FreeBSD 5.X?

Jev jev at ecad.org
Thu May 19 16:02:42 PDT 2005


Danny Howard wrote:
> Jev wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We have a new box with 4 200GiG IDE disks, we wish to set it up using
>> software raid, and I'm aware there are many options, from vimum, gvinum,
>> various other geom classes...
>>
>> What is the best option looking to the future, that is usable for now?
>>
>> We are looking for data safety over speed.
>>
> You might set up a RAID10, which is a stripe across two mirrors. 
> Mirrors are the best way to preserve data -- very simple to implement,
> and if a disk crashes, rebuild is just a matter of copying data from the
> known good disk.

Hi danny, thanks for the reply.

What do you use for RAID0? I'm aware of geom mirror, and raid3 classes...


Cheers,
-Jev


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