On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
surely being (real) hardware raid with 15k rpm disks this wouldn't be a huge issue unless a large amount of data was being written ?
RAID5 outside of RAID 0 is the worst possible RAID level to run with a
database. (of the commonly used raid level's that is).
It is very, very slow on random writes which is what databases do.
Switch to RAID 10.
surely being (real) hardware raid with 15k rpm disks this wouldn't be a huge issue unless a large amount of data was being written ?
