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Memory sizing
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2006-04-25 15:33:49
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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