Re: RAID for the DB filesystem

From: Rodrigo E(dot) De León Plicet <rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Brian Modra <brian(at)zwartberg(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RAID for the DB filesystem
Date: 2009-08-03 22:02:43
Message-ID: a55915760908031502g3938628as54a6673af5621eaa@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Brian Modra<brian(at)zwartberg(dot)com> wrote:
> (...) and 6x300GB SAS RAID 10 for the database... but some experts have said
> RAID 5 is fine. I'm inlined to think RAID 10, but I'm not an expert.

These guys:

http://www.baarf.com/

... kinda dislike RAID5 with a passion; dunno if it's related to stuff like:

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2007/06/18/RAID-10-vs.-RAID-5-Performance.aspx

Good luck.

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