Thanks for your fast reply. Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2006 18:31 schrieb Merlin Moncure: > On 4/12/06, Janning Vygen <vygen@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > disk 1: OS, tablespace > > disk 2: indices, WAL, Logfiles > > - Does my partitioning make sense? > > with raid 10 all four drives will appear as a single physical device > shared by all. I'm personally not a big fan of logical partitioning > of a single raid device unless you are trying to keep a physical > volume under 1 TB for example. Each sync on the volume is guaranteed > to sync all 4 disks regardless of how you set your partitions up. Ok, i am not a raid expert. but in my understanding RAID 10 is faster than two RAID 1 arrays, aren't they? So, given that i can put up to 4 S-ATA disk in my server and the mentioned raid controller. Would you prefer no-raid, RAID1 or RAID 10? > > - I want to know if 3ware 9500 S is recommended or if its one of those > > controllers which sucks. > > escalade is a fairly full featured raid controller for the price. > consider it the ford taurus of raid controllers, it's functional and > practical but not sexy. Their S line is not native sata but operates > over a pata->sata bridge. Stay away from raid 5. thanks for your recommendation. ford taurus is ok for me :-) kind regrads janning
