FreeBSD hardware solution for a database server

[Alex Zbyslaw]

David Drum wrote:

>Quoth Jim C. Nasby:
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>>I'd suggest whichever one is a stripe of mirrors (you don't want a
>>mirror of 2 stripe sets).
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>RAID 1+0 (also incorrectly referred to as "10") is a stripe of mirrors.
>RAID 0+1 is a mirror of stripes.
>Jim is right; the difference is subtle yet important when one or more disks fail.
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This site has a good explanation: 
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/
Presumably something like RAID 50 would be an improvement too.

--Alex