[TriLUG] Setting Up RAID-5

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Fri Dec 8 12:10:48 EST 2006


More spindles = more performance

Regards,

Jim

Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
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Neuse River Networks 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of
> Brian Henning
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:08 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Setting Up RAID-5
> 
> Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> > Brian Henning wrote:
> >> Lee Fickenscher wrote:
> >>> If uptime and performance aren't really a concern, why even bother
> >>> with raid?
> >>
> >> Two reasons:
> >> 1) Throughput, particularly on read.  Striping across several disks
> >> means I can move more than one drive's max data rate at once (right?).
> >
> > Uhhhmmm...isn't that "performance"?
> 
> I'd say it is; I never said performance wasn't a concern.  In fact, I
> said throughput was my #1 concern, followed by data safety, and that
> only uptime wasn't so much a concern.  (I did say /write/ performance
> wasn't as much of a concern, which may be where Mr. Fickenscher
> misinterpreted me).
> 
> >
> > C
> >
> 
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