| From: | Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com> |
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| To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ted Byers <r(dot)ted(dot)byers(at)rogers(dot)com>, Janning Vygen <vygen(at)gmx(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S |
| Date: | 2006-04-15 14:41:40 |
| Message-ID: | cone.1145112100.134408.47312.1000@zoraida.natserv.net |
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Merlin Moncure writes:
> there are reasons to go with raid 5 or other raids. where I work we
> often do 14 drive raid 6 plus 1 hot swap on a 15 drive tray.
Raid 5 is different from raid 6.... To say that there are times it's ok to
use RAID 5 and then say you use raid 6... well... doesn't really say
anything about raid 5.
Also, what controller are you using?
>From what I gather, raid 6 is less common and fewer cards support it (areca
is one of them I believe).
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