On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Marcus Kool wrote: > I wish that the wiki for RIAD is rewritten. > > Companies depend on internet access and a working Squid proxy > and therefore the advocated "no problem if a single disk fails" > is not from today's reality. Mirroring? no worries. RAID5? reduced performance. > One should also consider the difference between > simple RAID and extremely advanced RAID disk systems > (i.e. EMC and other arrays). > The external disk arrays like EMC with internal RAID5 are simply faster > than a JBOD of internal disks. Doing some more updated testing is on my todo list in June/July timeframe, but the last time I checked RAID5 was still slower than a JBOD for Squid. Of course, Squid taxes disk setups in ways they really aren't designed for, and it doesn't do it well. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
