If your intallation is CPU bound, and you are using an Atom N270 processor or the like, well some ideas: The Atom CPU may have threading, so you could run 2 RAIDs which then probably would run in each thread. It would cost you 1 more disk if you run 2 RAID5's so you get 8 TB payload out of your 12 GB total (6 drives of 2 TB each). Another way to get better performance could be to use less CPU-intensitive RAID types. RAID5 is intensitive as it needs to calculate XOR information all the time. Maybe a mirrored raid type like RAID10,f2 would give you less CPU usage, and the run 2 RAIDS to have it running in both hyperthreads. Here you would then only get 6 TB payload of your 12 GB disks, but then also probably a faster system. Best regards keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
