> Which one is the better choice and what are the trade offs? Or isanother configuration more sensible? I'm under the impression that you shouldn't (can't?) boot from RAID 5.
Depends very much on what you're going to do with the system - I've found a high performnce impact of raid5 for database applicaions with frequent updates (where you end up with lots of small writes scattered
I've always thought raid1 would be slower than, say, raid0+1 or raid5. I guess I am wrong then. =)
allover the partition). If write speed isn't too important, the space savings may well make raid5 more attractive.
What about raid0+1 vs raid5? What is the difference? In my setup, I plan on using the raid just to store user data; the machine would boot (/, /usr, swap, /var) from an unraid disk.
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