We are running with a JBOD configuration, and it is not recommended for the following reasons: - any volume failure causes an unclean shutdown and requires lengthy recovery - data is not distributed consistently across volumes, so you could have skew within a broker
We are planning to switch to a RAID-10 implementation. Chi On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Todd Palino <tpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > At LinkedIn, we are using a RAID-10 of 14 disks. This is using software > RAID. I recently did some performance testing with RAID 0, 5, and 6. I > found that 5 and 6 underperformed significantly, possibly due to the parity > calculations. RAID 0 had a sizable performance gain over 10, and I would > expect single disks to perform similarly. I didn't test it because it lacks > some balancing ability that We would need. > > -Todd > > > On Friday, August 21, 2015, Prabhjot Bharaj <prabhbha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've gone through the details mentioned about Raid and individual disks > in > > the ops section of the documentation > > > > But, I would like to know what performance boost we can get with > individual > > disks. > > Is anybody using Kafka with multiple disks or all are raid into 1 big > disk > > ? > > > > Regards, > > Prabcs > > >
