aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded good until I started researching RAID controller cards. It looks like it will cost me $520 to get a good PCI-E card (3Ware 8 port). I don't think I want to spend that much if I don't have to. My goals are two fold. 1) I want to get some redundancy in case of a drive failure. 2) I want to increase my performance.
If you want to increase performance relative to a single drive, RAID 5 is the wrong choice. Many (most, in my experience) workloads will run slower on RAID 5. I recommend running RAID 10 if you think the storage needs to be faster. Either get sixth drive for 2.25TB of storage, or set up a 1.5TB array with a hot spare.
Software RAID is fine if you don't want to pay for a controller, but get yourself a UPS.
I have benchmarked my read and write performance to and from this server. Using Samba, I seem to be able to get about 50Mb/sec reads and 40Mb/sec writes. I am on a gig network and would like to be able to max out the cards (90Mb/sec is what I get at work).
More than likely, you need to enable jumbo frames on all of your systems. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
