[nmglug] Raid Help

[Jason Davis]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 19:19 -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 17:46 -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
> > After talking with some folks I've come to the conclusion that I'm using the
> > wrong level of raid.  I thought that by having an off-the-shelf ATA/133 RAID
> > controller (SiL) I was using hardware RAID.  Turns out that it's software
> > raid.  I had set it up to do mirroring (RAID1).  Nice reads......horrible
> > writes, especially for some of the database apps.
> > 
> > After checking out this site ( http://www.acnc.com/04_00.html ) it would seem
> > that I need to be using RAID10 for the database application.
> > 
> > I apologize for not specifying the correct information initially.  What I was
> > hoping for was that someone would prompt me with questions that I didn't know
> > needed to be asked.
> > 


also , I wonder , have you ever failed your array and see if you can
rebuild it , or at least get the important info off?

jd