RAID 10 is better than RAID 0+1. There is a lot of information on
the net about this, but here is the first one that popped up on
google for me.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/multLevel01-c.html
The quick summary is that performance is about the same between the
two, but RAID 10 gives better fault tolerance and rebuild
performance. I have seen docs for RAID cards that have confused
these two RAID levels. In addition, some cards claim to support RAID
10, when they actually support RAID 0+1 or even RAID 0+1 with
concatenation (lame, some of the Dell PERCs have this).
RAID 10 with 6 drives would stripe across 3 mirrored pairs. RAID 0+1
with 6 drives is a mirror of two striped arrays (3 disks each). RAID
0+1 (with concatenation) using 6 drives is a mirror of two volumes
(kind of like JBOD) each consisting of 3 drives concatenated together
(it's a cheap implementation, and it gives about the same performance
as RAID 1 but with increased storage capacity and less fault
tolerance). RAID 10 is better than RAID 5 (especially with 6 or less
disks) because you don't have the performance hit for parity (which
dramatically affects rebuild performance and write performance) and
you get better fault tolerance (up to 3 disks can fail in a 6 disk
RAID 10 and you can still be online, with RAID 5 you can only lose 1
drive). All of this comes with a higher cost (more drives and higher
end cards).
-- Will Reese http://blog.rezra.com
On May 2, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Mark Lewis wrote:
They are not equivalent. As I understand it, RAID 0+1 performs about
the same as RAID 10 when everything is working, but degrades much less
nicely in the presence of a single failed drive, and is more likely to
suffer catastrophic data loss if multiple drives fail.
-- Mark
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:40 -0600, Brendan Duddridge wrote:
Everyone here always says that RAID 5 isn't good for Postgres. We
have an Apple Xserve RAID configured with RAID 5. We chose RAID 5
because Apple said their Xserve RAID was "optimized" for RAID 5. Not
sure if we made the right decision though. They give an option for
formatting as RAID 0+1. Is that the same as RAID 10 that everyone
talks about? Or is it the reverse?
Thanks,
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On May 2, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:14:41PM +0930, Eric Lam wrote:
all dumpfiles total about 17Gb. It has been running for 50ish hrs
and up
to about the fourth file (5-6 ish Gb) and this is on a raid 5
server.
RAID5 generally doesn't bode too well for performance; that could be
part of the issue.
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