[CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

Christopher Chan

christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue Sep 1 00:26:54 UTC 2009


> But note that drive capacity has gone up too, often eliminating the need 
> for many-disk arrays.  For example, you can go up to 2TB on a single 
> drive, so a simple RAID1 mirror may be all you need, and if you can 
> arrange the mount points to match the use pattern you may get better 
> performance out of several separate raid1 partitions where the heads can 
> seek independently instead of essentially tying them all together in a 
>   
That is assuming a multi-platter disk and that you can actually 
partition things in such a way that different heads get to exclusively 
handle partitions most of the time.


> single array. A many-disk array may do better on artificial benchmarks 
> accessing one big file, but that's not what most computers actually do - 
> and raid1 has the advantages of not slowing down when a member fails and 
> you can recover the data from any single drive.
>
>   

We are still talking about raid1+0 here...no raid5 or what not you know.



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