Re: [squid-users] Raid0

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:19:05 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, BusyBoy wrote:

> Is it good to install squid with RAID 0 having following properties:
>
> Striping (RAID 0)
> No Redundancy
> Fastest read/write performance.
> Requires 2 or more disks.

Squid already balances the load on multiple drives.

All you get from striping with Squid is a higher administration cost and
more fatal errors in case a drive should fail as you loose the whole
cache, not only the cache on the failed drive.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Oct 26 2004 - 03:19:09 MDT

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