Running FreeBSD/PostgreSQL on high-end dual Xeon box

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Jun 4 16:06:34 PDT 2004


Kenji M wrote:
> I had been considering the same setup, but it might make sense just
> to use 3 disk RAID5 with hot spare ready.  The new RAID controller
> implementation might not buy us much by using 0+1 vs. 5.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I doubt many databases recommend RAID-5; using RAID 0+1 is likely to be a 
better choice.

-- 
-Chuck


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