>>> 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. On 27.02.10 13:12, Marcus Kool wrote: > What hardware RAID solution is being used ? > I like to know details like battery-backed write cache and its size. > For the RAID0 part, the stripe size is important and should be > larger than the average object size (usually 13 KB). This is to avoid > using 2 disks for 1 logical read. I would recommend a stripe size of 64 KB > or more. When you have lots of large objects, an even larger stripe size > is recommended. for RAID0 part, it better should not being used. there's no speed improvement in RAID0, unless you have less parallel requests than disks. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way.
