Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > What are you trying to accomplish storage wise? > > Is this for commerical or personal use? Commercial, but non-critical use. > If for personal use, then it isn't as critical how it is setup, > but if this is for commercial use then you need to target your > storage to your application. Nothing really very IO demanding. Running an OpenVZ server with many Virtual machines on it, but load is very low. > > If you want this to be reconfigured on the fly without ever > rebooting then you may find your options limited on which > RAID levels you can choose. > > Typically I keep the system disks in a RAID1 and the data disks > on separate RAID arrays setup depending on the application. > > Scratch or temp files -> RAID0 > File serving -> RAID5 or RAID6 (depending on disk size # of disks) > Databases, large email, many VMS -> RAID10 > > Let us know what you want the storage for and we can suggest a > configuration. > > Top of my head though, I would use the 18GB for the OS and keep > the 4 36GB for application data either as a RAID10 or RAID5. That would make sense. Use RAID1 18GB for /, /boot and /var and use a RAID4 with 4 36GB HDD for /vz (OpenVZ's virtual machines are located there). Makes sense? Thanks, Ugo