On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> wrote:
> RAID-1 & RAID-10 are not ruled out, I'm just exploring options. And I'm not actually wanting to use RAID 5; it's RAID
6that I'm considering...
You have 4 disk bays and you want RAID-6? How will that improve
anything over RAID-10? You will have the same amount of available
space, and the writes will be slower. Ok...there is *one* advantage:
you can lose any two drives at the same time and still survive, with
RAID-10 if you lose the wrong two drives you're hosed.
That said, on one of my production DB's, I have a 16-bay raid
enclosure and I run RAID-6 + hot spare. It even has an Areca
controller made visible to the server as a single drive via fibre
channel. Very sweet setup.
