On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:58:07PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:52, Lucia Di Occhi wrote:
> > >Do not use RAID.
> >
> > Do you mean SOFTWARE RAID? Hardware striping will definately improve
> > performance.
>
> Frankly I'm not sure. Most ppl on the list does not encourage using
> RAID. I only run the cache on 1 SATA disk.
People should be more specific than just "dont use raid!". Modern hardware
raid-boxes with GB's of cache are blazingly fast even on RAID-5. Ofcourse
you shouldn't spend such money for cache which you can lose without problems,
but if you have some free space on some raid-box why not use it..
Cheers,
Henrik
Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 01:24:20 MST
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