On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:12:27AM -0400, Francisco Reyes
wrote:
> Pete Wright writes:
>
> >SATA drives are pretty good, we use them for some
things although for
> >something as critical as a database i would not
trust them especially if
> >you expecting to have frequent/large disk IO
happening.
>
> They are not too bad on RAID 10.
>
you can get decent performance, but i would day they are
much less
reliable than SCSI disks. esp. in a DB environment where
you are going
to have alot of random seeks, read's and writes. we get
decent
throughput on long streaming I/O though...
> >looked at using graid3(8)? this will help maximize
space and speed of
> >your disks while providing some redundancy via a
parity device.
>
> But isn't that software raid? At least that what it
seems (just did man
> graid3). We always do hardware raid.
yep sure is, although you can implement such a scheme with a
decent
hardware controller...
-p
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Peter Wright
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www.nomadlogic.org/~pete
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