From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 16:06:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87A016A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:06:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490C643D48 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.84.3]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040604230615.HZIJ6671.out003.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:06:15 -0500 Message-ID: <40C10067.20303@mac.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:06:15 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenji M References: <20040603214253.GA93387@kenjim.com> <20040604205244.GA228@kenjim.com> In-Reply-To: <20040604205244.GA228@kenjim.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:06:14 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD/PostgreSQL on high-end dual Xeon box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 23:06:34 -0000 Kenji M wrote: > I had been considering the same setup, but it might make sense just > to use 3 disk RAID5 with hot spare ready. The new RAID controller > implementation might not buy us much by using 0+1 vs. 5. > > Any thoughts? I doubt many databases recommend RAID-5; using RAID 0+1 is likely to be a better choice. -- -Chuck