From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: "Mathias Burén" <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What layout with 6x2TB, Intel Atom?
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 03:12:32 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130205031232.61813f6c@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADNH=7EUc7z-E=uo74-QqaKEUcrZiAYKaZqtSfFVbLKpfvt7og@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:27:42 +0000
Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com> wrote:
> I read that the far layout gives faster read performance compared to
> standard RAID1 in a 2 HDD array, so that's why I used it. I then
> created yet another RAID10 f2 layout of the 3x 2 disk RAID10 volumes,
> giving me /dev/md124. Filesystem doesn't matter, I need something
> that's stable with good performance over the RAID set.
> I just realized that out of 12 TB raw space I now only have 3TB
> available, heh. So I suppose I'm going for a different layout.
>
> Any opinions?
Hello,
Why won't you even consider RAID6? To me it seems like the perfect choice,
given the details you described (mostly reads, large files, few clients).
And the disk count is perfect, not too few and not too many, so to say :D
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With respect,
Roman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-04 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-04 20:27 What layout with 6x2TB, Intel Atom? Mathias Burén
2013-02-04 20:29 ` Mathias Burén
2013-02-04 20:47 ` Mathias Burén
2013-02-04 23:15 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-02-05 0:01 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-02-05 14:17 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-02-05 0:04 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-02-04 21:12 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2013-02-04 22:59 ` Steven Haigh
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