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From: berk walker <berk@panix.com>
To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 ..
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:44:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F5B707.3030005@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0602171100420.22063@lion.drogon.net>

Gordon Henderson wrote:

>I'm building a little test server and I wanted ~500GB of storage with
>2-drive redundancy, so the best price vs. num. drives vs. the need for 2
>drive redundancy came to 4 x 250GB drives. (And I have a mobo with 5 SATA
>ports, and taking into account case power requirements, etc. 4 drives has
>worked out quiet well, and cheaper than 2 x 500GB drives!)
>
>So RAID-6, which I have have been using for a year or so now with good
>results, or RAID-10, which I've never used.
>
>I suspect RAID-10 might give me more performance, not having the parity
>calculations to do, but is it stable and reliable? I've not been paying
>much attention to it recently ... (Servers intended use is what I
>understand is termed 'LAMP' these days - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP,
>although it's going to be handling up to 10,000 emails a day too with spam
>and virus checking)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Gordon
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RAID-6 *will* give you your required 2-drive redundancy.
b-


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-17 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-17 11:10 4 disks: RAID-6 or RAID-10 Gordon Henderson
2006-02-17 11:44 ` berk walker [this message]
2006-02-17 11:54   ` Gordon Henderson
2006-02-17 12:07     ` Francois Barre
2006-02-17 15:14       ` Gordon Henderson
2006-02-17 15:31         ` Andy Smith
2006-02-17 15:56           ` Gordon Henderson
2006-03-05 18:23         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-03-05 20:59           ` Gordon Henderson
     [not found]             ` <440B5ABF.6000702@tmr.com>
2006-03-06 12:14               ` Gordon Henderson

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