i would recommend raid10,f2 which has the performance you ask for . more info in the raid wiki keld On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:10:30AM -0300, Guillermo F wrote: > Hi, > > I want to configure a mdadm RAID10 in Fedora 29. It will use 8 SAS > disks. It will be used mostly for sequential reading and writing of > big files. > In theory I would obtain 8X sequential read performance and 4X > sequential write performance (where X is the performance of each > individual disk) > > 1- Can you suggest a recommended configuration for mdadm (layout, > chunk size, etc.) to obtain approximately obtain the expected > performance? > Any other recommended configuration apart from mdadm ? > 2- What tool do you suggest to measure IOPS and throughput? > > Thanks!