From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 17:30:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273611065686 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:30:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2298FC14 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:30:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m8SHUb7Z097517; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:30:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m8SHUZ1E097514; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:30:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:30:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Danny Do In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20080928193017.P97512@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <00d101c92154$691f53c0$3b5dfb40$@com> <48DF78C3.9080401@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080928165534.X96877@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080928121713.5c905a40.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <3b93bd110809280925i2a99efd7qf733658d7c23fd74@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "'Diego F. Arias R.'" , 'Bill Moran' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hard disk bottle neck. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:30:44 -0000 > The reason I use RAID5 because I don't want to waste too much space on redundancy whilst taking the advantage of read. Over 99% of disk access are expected to be reading. in that case - RAID5 is perfect, just properly set up.