Hi, Okay... for those of you following the previous RAID discussion... I bought the 3ware cards.
Each server has 4 40G hard disks (identical). What RAID level/config do you suggest? Main usage is web/database/mail server (the usual hosting setup). Disk performance isn't THAT important, but reliability is. I was originally thinking setting up 2 RAID1 arrays... 2 disks + 2 disks (or RAID10), but after thinking a bit more, perhaps RAID5 with 3 disks + 1 spare would be even better? With the RAID10 solution 2 disks could die (but there is still the chance that the 2 disks holding the same information die), but with the RAID5 only 1 disk could die (but then the spare would kick in). Any suggestions, as usual, would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Jason
