Re: Dual Xeon + HW RAID question

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dual Xeon + HW RAID question
Date: 2003-07-14 11:19:25
Message-ID: 20030714111925.GD24166@libertyrms.info
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:25:14AM -0700, Nikolaus Dilger wrote:
> Alexandre,
>
> Since you want the fastest speed I would do the 2 data
> disks in RAID 0 (striping) not RAID 1 (mirroring).

Note that RAID 0 buys you nothing at all in redundancy. So if the
point is to be able to recover from a disk failure, you need 1 (or
some combination of 0 and 1, or 5).

A

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