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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> If you're using maildir, that is one of the situations which works pretty 
> well with RAID-5, although RAID-10 is also (always? :-) a good choice.

How about for database? In particular postgresql.
How bad would RAID 5 be for it?

I still have some, limited, hopes I can convince the owner of the company 
to go with RAID 10 with 10K rpm drives.. the most likelyhood we will go 
with RAID 5, 7200rpm drives for a database project ahead. Alternatively I 
will see how RAID 5 with 10K rpm SCSI drives compares price wise, but I am 
sure it will be substantially more. :-(