Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-10 Thread Lev Lvovsky
I'd go with Raid5 personally... it really depends also on your monetary needs, and how often you do backups. -lev On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi, > > Okay... for those of you following the previous RAID discussion... I > bought the 3ware cards. > > Each server has 4 40G hard disks

Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-10 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > With RAID5 and 4 disks... the RAID5 would not survive more than 1 disk > failing... that sort of gives me the heebie jeebies. > Thats why I thought RAID5 with 3 disks and 1 spare or RAID10. again, it really depends on your monetary capabilities, and how mu

Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-10 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > Disk space is not a major consideration: this is not a fileserver. It is a > webserver, so we're looking at more sporadic random small file reads. I > know its not likely to happen (that is, that more than 1 disk dies at a > time), but I want to get the ser

Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-10 Thread Lev Lvovsky
I'd go with Raid5 personally... it really depends also on your monetary needs, and how often you do backups. -lev On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi, > > Okay... for those of you following the previous RAID discussion... I > bought the 3ware cards. > > Each server has 4 40G hard disks

Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-10 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > With RAID5 and 4 disks... the RAID5 would not survive more than 1 disk > failing... that sort of gives me the heebie jeebies. > Thats why I thought RAID5 with 3 disks and 1 spare or RAID10. again, it really depends on your monetary capabilities, and how muc

Re: RAID Suggestion for webserver

2002-02-10 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > Disk space is not a major consideration: this is not a fileserver. It is a > webserver, so we're looking at more sporadic random small file reads. I > know its not likely to happen (that is, that more than 1 disk dies at a > time), but I want to get the serv