> We can argue/discuss this until we're blue in the face but IMHO RAID10 > is the way to go. Better performance, better redundancy, and better > reliability. And increasingly I want to do in in software rather than > hardware.
Oh, absolutely, this can be debated past the end of time. Different goals for different folks. Personally, I'd rather do RAID 1/0 groups in hardware over software. But I can understand when & why you'd prefer software. RAID5? With the right controllers, unless you're saturating your disk connections, you should be able to get close to RAID 1/0 speeds. It's a question of where do you spend your money. And before anybody says anything about this, I've been doing this for close to 20 years. I shocked an Oracle DBA several years ago when he was adamant that his databases absolutely, positively would not perform well on RAID5 volumes. I pointed out that his high performance database had been running on a RAID5 (hardware implementation over Fibre Channel) volume set for 6 months. My point is that there are always alternatives. Speed costs, how fast do you want to go. Jeff Kalchik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
