It depends on what your goal is and how many disks your system will contain.
Personally I like a disk configuration with multiple spindels for performance. I also require redundancy, RAID-5 sounds good and is but I want the most out of writes, so I go with RAID-1+0. Hope this helps. On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Jim McAtee wrote: > What would be the ideal RAID configuration for a dedicated MySQL db server > running on FreeBSD? > > We're also running some MySQL databases on Windows 2000 Servers. What about > the best configuration for a dedicated W2k server running MySQL? > > Thanks, > Jim > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]