Re: [Bacula-users] Slow disks RAID10 vs Fast disks RAID5

2012-11-26 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/22/2012 7:09 PM, James Harper wrote: >> And for the file volumes either: >> >> 12 x 600GB 15K SAS (RAID 5 or 6?) - faster disks (or is it in a raid 5?) and >> less >> space (approx 6TB) >> >> OR >> >> 12 x 2TB 7.2K SAS/SATA (RAID 10) - slower disks but more space (approx >> 11.18 TB) >> > If

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow disks RAID10 vs Fast disks RAID5

2012-11-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John Kenyon said: > 2 x 300GB 15K SAS (RAID 1) - This will have OS (centos 64 bit) and Bacula > MySQL catalog I have a new server running RHEL 6 with 15K SAS RAID1 for the OS. It has an external disk shelf with 12 2TB 7200 RPM SATA drives connected to a regular (non-RAID) SAS

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow disks RAID10 vs Fast disks RAID5

2012-11-22 Thread Silas Moeckel
On 11/22/2012 6:05 PM, John Kenyon wrote: > Hi All, > > Wondering what peoples thoughts/experiences are with the following (or > similar) single bacula server in regards to disk configuration: > > 2 x 300GB 15K SAS (RAID 1) - This will have OS (centos 64 bit) and Bacula > MySQL catalog > > And fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow disks RAID10 vs Fast disks RAID5

2012-11-22 Thread John Kenyon
Hi James, > If you are backing up over 1Gbit/s ethernet then you require a storage that > can write at a maximum of 100mbytes/s and either configuration should be > more than capable of handling way more than that, assuming that it never > gets ridiculously fragmented. If you use RAID5 then I reco

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow disks RAID10 vs Fast disks RAID5

2012-11-22 Thread James Harper
> > And for the file volumes either: > > 12 x 600GB 15K SAS (RAID 5 or 6?) - faster disks (or is it in a raid 5?) and > less > space (approx 6TB) > > OR > > 12 x 2TB 7.2K SAS/SATA (RAID 10) - slower disks but more space (approx > 11.18 TB) > If you are backing up over 1Gbit/s ethernet then y