RAID 5. Easy to set up, fast, and reliable. Uses more disks, however.
RAID 1 is, I believe, mirroring. With that, all info must be written to
two different disks. With RAID 5, the disks are "striped" (not really,
but I don't remember the real name for it) and part of each byte, with a
checksum, goes on each disk. So, your disk writes are actually being
written to multiple disks, so they are faster (in theory). And, if one
disk fails, you can recover because the failed disk can be rebuilt fro
the others.
Rod
> hello,
>
> my hosting company told me that they only support either RAID 1 and
RAID 5.
>
> so given this choice, w/c would you suggest?
> i use a MySQL database for a bulletin board application w/c does
_LOTS_ of
> SELECTS and data lookup.
>
> thanks in advance,
> chad
>
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