[nmglug] raid 10 vs 5

Andres Paglayan andres at paglayan.com
Wed Sep 9 20:16:10 PDT 2009



> If data integrity and uptime is very high on your priority list, go with 
> 6.  If random IO performance is king, go with 10.  If you need 3TB of 
> space, go with 5.  Whatever you do, buy server grade 24/7 rated drives 
> and do regular backups.
> 


IO matters,
most of the writes will be against a DB,
and probably 1 out of 100 of the writes will be small files (as in 500
KB),

but uptime and integrity are higher in the priority,
so probably 6 it is,

awesome answers from all,
thanks a lot,


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