Advice on RAID?

[Martin Hepworth]

Depends on how write heavy the filesystem will be, if it's write heavy then
you may find a RAID 5 with 3 disks sucks (esp for a database).



On 5/11/06, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent.net> wrote:
>
> I have looked into and tried FreeBSD 6.0 Vinum and GEOM RAID in our PIII
> SCSI 80-pin server with the help of several here on the list. I'm pretty
> much going to use GEOM RAID-1 for the system disks using Ralf's doc. I
> have room for 3 more disks. Would you recommend using Vinum RAID-5 on
> three 73GB drives or using GEOM RAID-1 again on 2 147GB drives?
>
> If there is no big reason to use either over the other, we've decided to
> go for the most space and RAID-5. But the amount of space we would be
> gaining is probably less than 50GB, correct?
>
> Or do you have another solution on our $700 budget. It is a debate here
> and would like to get experienced insight.
>
> Thanks in advance for your time!
> --
> Robert
>
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