[CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?
Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Sun Feb 22 15:35:27 UTC 2009
Kay Diederichs wrote:
> A good place to start comparing benchmark numbers for different RAID
> levels is
> http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Performance
> in particular the links given in section "Other benchmarks from 2007-2008"
>
I like this bit of info from
http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Performance
Right under "Fresh benchmarking tools"
"To check out speed and performance of your RAID systems, do NOT use
hdparm. It won't do real benchmarking of the arrays."
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