On Thursday 25 February 2010 13:42:52 Amos Jeffries wrote: > My opinion of RAID behind Squid is very poor. Avoid if at all possible. > > HW RAID is claimed to be workable though, particularly as the price > range and quality goes up. > > The RAID0 operations of striping are duplication of the object spread > Squid itself performs between its cache_dir. So all you really gain > there is a larger total disk (Squid don't care about that) and risk of > loosing the entire lot if any stripe platters die. What about that sequental read of file on RAID0 is faster? Sure if file is larger than double stripe size.
