On Friday 12 December 2003 02:21, Peter Kiem wrote: > With 4 drives, I can either do raid-5 with a hotspare or raid-10. > Both will give me 160GB of space and theoretically can withstand the > loss of 2 drives. > > Any suggestions as to which raid array type to choose? Raid 10 will give you much faster performance, but you'll only be able to drop one disk PER mirror. You can't just drop any 2 disks. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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