Re: setting up raid10 with more than 4 drives

Stripe of mirrors is preferred to mirror of stripes for the best balance of
protection and performance.

In the stripe of mirrors you can lose up to half of the disks and still be
operational. In the mirror of stripes, the most you could lose is two
drives. The performance of the two should be similar - perhaps the seek
performance would be different for high concurrent use in PG.

- Luke

On 5/29/07 2:14 PM, "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <mallah(dot)rajesh(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> this is not really postgresql specific, but any help is appreciated.
> i have read more spindles the better it is for IO performance.
>
> suppose i have 8 drives , should a stripe (raid0) be created on
> 2 mirrors (raid1) of 4 drives each OR should a stripe on 4 mirrors
> of 2 drives each be created ?
>
> also does single channel or dual channel controllers makes lot
> of difference in raid10 performance ?
>
> regds
> mallah.
>
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