Re: RAID card recommendation - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Gurgel, Flavio
Subject Re: RAID card recommendation
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Msg-id 28683160.121141259096891567.JavaMail.root@mail.4linux.com.br
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In response to Re: RAID card recommendation  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-performance
----- "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> escreveu:

> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ing. Marcos Ortiz Valmaseda
> <mlortiz@uci.cu> wrote:
> > Do you expose that performance issued caused by RAID 5? Because this
> is one
> > of our solutions here on my country to save the data of our
> PostgreSQL
> > database. Which model do you recommend ? RAID 0,RAID 1, RAID 5 or
> RAID 10?
>
> RAID-1 or RAID-10 are the default, mostly safe choices.
>
> For disposable dbs, RAID-0 is fine.
>
> For very large dbs with very little writing and mostly reading and on
> a budget, RAID-6 is ok.
>
> In most instances I never recommend RAID-5 anymore.

I would never recommend RAID-5 for database customers (any database system), some of the current ones are using it and
theworst nightmares in disk performance are related to RAID-5. 
As Scott said, RAID-1 is safe, RAID-0 is fast (and accept more request load too), RAID-10 is a great combination of
bothworlds. 

Flavio Henrique A. Gurgel
Consultor -- 4Linux
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www.4linux.com.br

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