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Re: RAID is good (was: Re: [squid-users] Hardware setup ?)

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On 25.03.08 10:23, Marcus Kool wrote:
> I wish that the wiki for RIAD is rewritten.

I think that (nearly) anyone can rewrite it, but...
 
> 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.

That's a different problem similar to one that was raised already: squid
should be able to work if one of configured cache_dirs is unavailable.
Ability to remove the cache_dir if it fails is just enhancing of this
functionality.

If there is no bugreport for this, it's time to create one...

> 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.

in such case RAID1 of such disks would be even faster, if you need
reliability (for now) or raid0 or maybe JBOD using the EMD...

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