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Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed...
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>> be using as a squid box.
>>
>> I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare,
>> and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache on the
>> latter, and have mounted it as /squid.
>
> it would be better to turn off RAID at all and use all five disks as fine
> squid partitions.
>
> use diskd "driver" in squid.
>
> add any used IDE drive for system.
>
> should go fine on it. squid is fast, if configured right.

I'm hoping that 137gb striped across two RAID0 volumes should be
sufficient space for our needs, and also hoping that it will be faster
than individual drives. However, I'll look up the diskd docs for
squid, and see what that's all about.