Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:35:37 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Benjamin D Adams <freebsdworld@gmail.com>, freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Best RAID setup Message-ID: <497895.75266.qm@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1167368499.641.3.camel@tard.freebsdworld.net>
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--- Benjamin D Adams <freebsdworld@gmail.com> wrote: > I have three SATA drives (750 GB Barracuda 7200) I'm trying to > figureout the best raid configuration for this. > I'm looking for great preformance but I also want to so if one of the > drives dies. I can remove it and the other two will work fine. Then > when I buy a new drive I can just add it to the RAID setup and it will > work again like nothing happen. > Sounds like u want to try graid3 (without gcache, since u just have 3 disks), which can only use [2^n +1]-disks (3, 5, 9, ...), and which introduces a higher sector size (1024 (3 disks), 2048, 4096, ...), or the more experimental graid5 ( http://home.tiscali.de/cmdr_faako/geom_raid5.tbz ), which might handle some special cases more gracefully, and which serves me well since months (no real stress on my box - just a PVR with max. 2 input channels of each about 500KB/sec; if u need install instructions, give me a note). -Arne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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