Ryan, > If you want performance stick with RAID 10. In general the more drives > (spindles) the faster the array. The Western Digital RE3 500 GB drives > are a good deal. You should be able to get 4 of those in the low > $200s. In RAID 10 this would give you better performance than 2 x 1TB > in RAID 1. > They are like $89.99 a piece on NewEgg. I have a friend that has 1 x 1TB Seagate Raid level drives he will sell me for $100 each. Is software RAID 10 decent performance? -Jason > Ryan > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, ML <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> > wrote: >> >> On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: >> >>> RAID 10 is striping across mirrored drives. >>> >>> So, if you have 4 x 1TB drives, think of it as two separate >>> 1 TB volumes. The system will write half your data to >>> volume A and the other half to volume B. The data in volume >>> A and B do not overlap. >>> >>> Now, each volume is composed of a mirrored set of drives. >>> Anything written to volume A is actually stored on two drives. >>> Anything written to volume B is actually stores on the other two >>> drives. >>> >>> Does this make sense? >>> Let me know if you need any more explanation. >> >> No it makes sense. >> >> I am contemplating if I really need 4 x 1tb in this system. I mean >> how >> much space with some photo's, web pages and MySQL take up if there >> are >> 5,000 subscribers to start up? >> >> Would 2 x 1TB enterprise drives be enough mirrored? >> >>> Also, when you move to a hosted solution, I would appreciate >>> your considering my company for it. >> >> Sure, I will be doing a lot of research on that for sure. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos