> The MD1000 is populated with (15) 2TB 7200rpm SAS drives in a RAID-5 > with 1 hotspare (leaving 13 data disks). I know that conventional > wisdom says that raid5 is a poor choice when you are looking for > performance, but localized benchmarking has proven that in our scenario
Since you've got such a large logical disk, I would do RAID6 + hotspare for better data security in case of disk failures, but it'll probably be a bit slower than RAID5. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
