I strongly recommend against raid5, if you want raid, do raid6. So each server has effectively (8-2Parity)*4TB space. Do not have enough experience to tell you about 8 disk raid6 vs distributed/replica using all the 16 drives without raid. Diego On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Fedele Stabile <fedele.stabile@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I have two server with a RAID controller and eight disks 4 TB capacity. > I would build a glusterfs. > What kind of configuration do you suggest me between these two? > 1. Create 2 RAID5 disks on the servers (each RAID is 4 disks, total > 12+12 TB) afterthat create on that RAID disks a distributed glusterfs > (one brick each server) > or > 2. Create 8 stand-alone disks (4 each server) and after create on it a > distributed glusterfs (4 bricks each server) > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
