Re: Postgresql 9.0.6 Raid 5 or not please help. - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From alexandre - aldeia digital
Subject Re: Postgresql 9.0.6 Raid 5 or not please help.
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In response to Re: Postgresql 9.0.6 Raid 5 or not please help.  (Mario Weilguni <roadrunner6@gmx.at>)
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> I'm not so confident that a RAID-1 will win over a single disk. When it
> comes to writes, the latency should be ~50 higher (if both disk must
> sync), since the spindles are not running synchronously. This applies to
> softraid, not something like a battery-backend raid controller of course.
>
> Or am I wrong here?
>

Software RAID-1 in Linux, can read data in all disks and generally
increase a lot the data rate in reads. In writes, for sure, the overhead
is great compared with a single disk, but not too much.


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