Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-30 Thread John R Pierce
Stephen Harris wrote: > "Almost always" is very dependent on the disks and size of the array. > > Let's take a 20TiByte array as an example. > ... he did say 'very large'. note, raid10 has another parameter... say you have a 20 drive raid10 of 1TB drives (10TB total usable). if one drive fa

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-30 Thread Brian McKerr
Slightly OT... Opensolaris has just had triple parity raid (raidz3) added to ZFS; http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/triple_parity_raid_z Pity we can't get an in kernel version of ZFS for linux. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:52:08PM -

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-30 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:52:08PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/24/2009 07:35 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Well, it depends on the disk-size: > > http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3839636 > > This info is VERY relevant ... you will almost ALWAYS have a

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/24/2009 07:35 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 24.09.2009 um 07:43 schrieb Fajar Priyanto: > >> Hi all, >> Sorry for the OT. >> I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. >> The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either >> RAID-DP or RAID4. >> What I wan

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Christopher Chan
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:48, nate wrote: > >> RAID 6 has a pretty good performance hit vs RAID 5 due to the >> extra parity disk, on some arrays the performance hit is even >> greater as the array calculates parity twice, NetApp I think has >> as good a R

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:48, nate wrote: > RAID 6 has a pretty good performance hit vs RAID 5 due to the > extra parity disk, on some arrays the performance hit is even > greater as the array calculates parity twice, NetApp I think has > as good a RAID 6 implementation as there is, though t

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:48 PM, nate wrote: > It's the array's way of saying it's not really safe to operate a > 14 disk RAID-4 group in the event of a drive failure. Also performance will > suffer greatly with such a large data:parity drive ratio. > > NetApp RAID DP (what you have): > http://www

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread nate
[re-sending with the right email address, hoping the first email won't make it through..] Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry for the OT. > I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. > The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either RAID-DP or RAID4. > What

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 24.09.2009 um 07:43 schrieb Fajar Priyanto: > Hi all, > Sorry for the OT. > I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. > The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either > RAID-DP or RAID4. > What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry for the OT. > I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. > The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either > RAID-DP or RAID4. > What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from > RAID-DP to RAID4, but wit

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry for the OT. > I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. > The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either > RAID-DP or RAID4. > What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it f

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-23 Thread Christopher Chan
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry for the OT. > I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. > The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either > RAID-DP or RAID4. > What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from > RAID-DP to RAID4, but wit

[CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, Sorry for the OT. I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either RAID-DP or RAID4. What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from RAID-DP to RAID4, but with RAID4, the maximum disk in a RAID