From: Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>
To: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:29:13 +0100
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Aidan Van Dyk schrieb:
> * Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> [081209 11:01]:
>
>
>> Yes the SmartArray series is quite common and actually know to perform
>> reasonably well, in RAID 10. You still appear to be trying RAID 5.
>>
>
> *boggle*
>
> Are people *still* using raid5?
>
> /me gives up!
>
>
Why not? I know it's not performing as good as RAID-10, but it does not
waste 50% diskspace. RAID-6 is no option, because the performance is
even worse. And, on another system with RAID-5 + spare and SAS drives,
the same controller is working very well.
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