On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
I will get four 72 GB sas-disks at 15K rpm. Reading the archives suggest raid 1+0 for optimal read/write performance, but with a solid raid-controller raid 5 will also perform very well when reading.
If you only have 4 drives, I'd recommend not to go with RAID5. You want to max out spindles. The 256k RAM may not be enough of a cache too.
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