FreeBSD hardware solution for a database server

Uzi Klein uzi at bmby.com
Tue Aug 23 06:42:49 GMT 2005


Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Uzi Klein wrote:
> 
>>2 mirrored drives mounted as /
>>3 RAID 5 drives mounted as /var
> 
> 
> RAID5 pretty much sucks for databases that do anything more than 1-5%
> writes.

would you suggest RAID 0+1 instead?

-Uzi


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