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From Rodrigo E. De León Plicet
Subject Re: RAID for the DB filesystem
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In response to RAID for the DB filesystem  (Brian Modra <brian@zwartberg.com>)
Responses Re: RAID for the DB filesystem  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Brian Modra<brian@zwartberg.com> wrote:
> (...) and 6x300GB SAS RAID 10 for the database... but some experts have said
> RAID 5 is fine. I'm inlined to think RAID 10, but I'm not an expert.

These guys:

http://www.baarf.com/

... kinda dislike RAID5 with a passion; dunno if it's related to stuff like:

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2007/06/18/RAID-10-vs.-RAID-5-Performance.aspx

Good luck.

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