From: kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:33:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A1EF2B.8090009@badapple.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051215215557.84137.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com>
Doug Brown wrote:
> My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I
> have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to
> install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was
> wondering what types of raid it supports. I know it supports 0 and 1,
> but I am more interested in raid 0+1 and 1+0.
>
Linux software raid is capable of doing all the usual stuff as well as
RAID 0+1 or 1+0. I'd want a RAID 0 stripe of mirrored RAID 1 sets rather
than mirroring two RAID 0 sets, but my requirements may not be yours.
Assuming this is a small home system I'd go with RAID 5 with maybe a
hot spare if I have more than four drives in a normal server setting
where reads happen more often than writes. That's more space with
comparable performance for anything you're likely to be doing. If you
really need the performance spend the money on a real RAID card with
local cache. The difference is night and day.
kashani
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-15 21:55 [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed Doug Brown
2005-12-15 22:29 ` Mike Williams
2005-12-15 22:33 ` kashani [this message]
2005-12-16 0:49 ` Ognjen Bezanov
2005-12-16 1:25 ` Richard Fish
2005-12-16 2:38 ` Jim Burwell
2005-12-16 1:21 ` Richard Fish
2005-12-16 9:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-16 10:06 ` jarry
2005-12-16 12:05 ` Jim Burwell
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