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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Cc: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>,
	Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com>,
	Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New setup: partitions or raw devices
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:22:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878temxf5j.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A218EDB.6030909@youngman.org.uk> (Wols Lists's message of "Fri, 1 Dec 2017 17:18:19 +0000")

On 1 Dec 2017, Wols Lists stated:
> Yes it does have advantages, and yes I plan to put a raid-10 array on my
> new system, but if reducing wear or protecting data are your priorities,
> raid-10 is the wrong choice.

It depends on the access patterns. It's no worse at safeguarding data
than RAID-5 and can be better (some, but not all, combinations of
multiple disk failures will lead to no data loss, something which would
otherwise require RAID-6). It's faster at reads and much faster at
random writes. The cost: possibly quite a lot more spinning rust for the
amount of available storage. (For me, power-consumption considerations
led me to stick with RAID, though I've gone to RAID-6.)

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-01 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-29 16:22 New setup: partitions or raw devices Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 16:44 ` Reindl Harald
2017-11-29 16:52   ` Phil Turmel
2017-11-29 17:42     ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 17:49       ` Phil Turmel
     [not found]         ` <CAJH6TXjFoUOCySnq2ErjTT9rb10XSc2saY=Q3RDheT7thOOFPg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CAJH6TXhK5XgY-1v49oHcRXBugDMZ6QagKSa-deCA-Q7tPPLRyA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <CAJH6TXgbfgg_dk9oasVExn=RPVZqQDKN2AWAmPi1U2=PiACAHA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-29 19:54               ` Fwd: " Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 22:10     ` Chris Murphy
2017-11-29 22:14       ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 22:27         ` Chris Murphy
2017-11-29 22:14       ` Chris Murphy
2017-11-29 17:38   ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 18:28     ` Reindl Harald
2017-11-29 19:51       ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 20:02         ` Reindl Harald
2017-11-29 22:02           ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 22:10             ` Reindl Harald
2017-11-29 22:25               ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 22:34                 ` Reindl Harald
2017-12-01 16:18                   ` Nix
2017-12-02 13:01                     ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-11-29 22:20           ` Wol's lists
2017-11-29 22:27             ` Reindl Harald
2017-12-01 16:19               ` Nix
2017-12-01 16:27                 ` Reindl Harald
2017-12-01 17:18                   ` Wols Lists
2017-12-01 22:22                     ` Nix [this message]
2017-12-01 23:44                     ` Reindl Harald
2017-12-02 13:14                       ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-12-02 13:56                         ` Reindl Harald
2017-12-02 17:12                         ` Phil Turmel
2017-12-02 18:39                           ` Reindl Harald
2017-12-02 13:19                       ` Nix
2017-12-02 14:01                         ` Reindl Harald
2017-12-02 20:35                           ` Nix
2017-12-02 21:41                             ` Reindl Harald

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