On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com>wrote:
> > RAID5 outside of RAID 0 is the worst possible RAID level to run with a > database. (of the commonly used raid level's that is). > > It is very, very slow on random writes which is what databases do. > Switch to RAID 10. > surely being (real) hardware raid with 15k rpm disks this wouldn't be a huge issue unless a large amount of data was being written ?
