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Aaron Couts
I'm setting up a SCSI drive array, and I was wondering, which is more
significant -- RAID level or drive speed? I'm considering the following
setups:
RAID 10 with 10K rpm drives
RAID 5 with 15K rpm drives
Obviously RAID 10 will always have the advantage of greater redundancy,
but I've never had two drives fail at the same time, and with RAID 5
I could probably afford a hotspare.
Anyone been able to compare the speeds of these two setups? My machine
is a heavily loaded database server with roughly twice as much read
activity as write activity.
Thanks,
Aaron
significant -- RAID level or drive speed? I'm considering the following
setups:
RAID 10 with 10K rpm drives
RAID 5 with 15K rpm drives
Obviously RAID 10 will always have the advantage of greater redundancy,
but I've never had two drives fail at the same time, and with RAID 5
I could probably afford a hotspare.
Anyone been able to compare the speeds of these two setups? My machine
is a heavily loaded database server with roughly twice as much read
activity as write activity.
Thanks,
Aaron