Re: Hardware suggestions

[Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Scott Marlowe writes:
>
> > and a bit more resiliant to drive failure, RAID-5 can give you a lot 
> > of storage and very good read performance, so it works well for 
> > reporting / 
>
> New controllers now also have Raid 6, which from the few reports I 
> have seen seems to have a good compromise of performance and space.

Very true.  And if they've gone to the trouble of implementing RAID-6, 
they're usually at least halfway decent controllers.