From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 13:09:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 9728716A40D for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 13:09:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F3443D46 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 13:08:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so326267wra for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 06:08:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=sAqBui8FJPqfYoJsXrZxxCyLs0Yjid9pxAJC2/mG5xPLYCwiJjuMzT5cfBEqYywbbh6NkvN1b/BoXPgFfAdyApi6y+bOQrGTI6jjgzH9VgAYyU7Kk87rSP70IIBlSja8CM8IYTSiwqWdAGypLdO8C9XdwkRyo9iTm19826LAdVQ= Received: by 10.54.148.9 with SMTP id v9mr2360780wrd; Fri, 12 May 2006 06:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.105.6 with HTTP; Fri, 12 May 2006 06:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <72cf361e0605120608u341e696emff71c8ca7ef1e7ed@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:08:58 +0100 From: "Martin Hepworth" To: "Robert Fitzpatrick" In-Reply-To: <1147383319.15954.75.camel@columbus.webtent.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1147383319.15954.75.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Advice on RAID? 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: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:09:00 -0000 Depends on how write heavy the filesystem will be, if it's write heavy then you may find a RAID 5 with 3 disks sucks (esp for a database). On 5/11/06, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I have looked into and tried FreeBSD 6.0 Vinum and GEOM RAID in our PIII > SCSI 80-pin server with the help of several here on the list. I'm pretty > much going to use GEOM RAID-1 for the system disks using Ralf's doc. I > have room for 3 more disks. Would you recommend using Vinum RAID-5 on > three 73GB drives or using GEOM RAID-1 again on 2 147GB drives? > > If there is no big reason to use either over the other, we've decided to > go for the most space and RAID-5. But the amount of space we would be > gaining is probably less than 50GB, correct? > > Or do you have another solution on our $700 budget. It is a debate here > and would like to get experienced insight. > > Thanks in advance for your time! > -- > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >