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Hi,<BR>
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Couple of weeks ago I posted a question about the way to go with a partition scheme on a production server.<BR>
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I was considering 4 disks,<BR>
and the suggestions were raid-6 or raid 10,<BR>
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now I just ordered the hardware, since the chassis supports 8 disks, and the mobo 6,<BR>
so I purchased 8 disks just to have two identical spares sitting there unplugged.<BR>
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This means that I'll have 6 disks running on the machine,<BR>
the server does constant little writes, and probably 50 times more little reads.<BR>
mostly from the DB<BR>
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Since I don't see myself changing or adding disks during the life of the server,<BR>
I will not do LVM on top.<BR>
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I am considering the following options,<BR>
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three mirrored groups of two, and then stripping, raid 10 (3/6 available, 2 or 3 can fail)<BR>
raid 6 (4/6 available, 2 can fail)<BR>
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My sensation for what I read is that 10 will be way faster, <BR>
and seems to be more in compliance with what DB vendors suggest,<BR>
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Any better idea or suggestion?<BR>
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Thank you all,<BR>
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Andres<BR>
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