Re: Integrated perc 5/i

From: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, Michael Ben-Nes <miki(at)epoch(dot)co(dot)il>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Integrated perc 5/i
Date: 2007-08-16 19:51:10
Message-ID: 20070816195110.GO54309@nasby.net
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 07:59:15PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:53:00AM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote:
> > They have a setting that sounds like RAID10, but it actually
> > implements spanning of mirrors.
>
> That's interesting. I'm pretty sure it actually says "RAID10" in the BIOS,
> but is this a lie?

Unless they use the "plus notation" (ie: RAID 1+0 or RAID 0+1), you
never truly know what you're getting.

BTW, there's other reasons that RAID 0+1 stinks, beyond just
performance.
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Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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