Re: [GENERAL] High cpu usage after many inserts

[Greg Williamson]

--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Jordan Tomkinson <jor...@moodle.com> wrote:

<...>

> What exactly is wrong with RAID5 and what should we have
> gone with?

RAID10 is often used. As others have pointed out, it is very slow for random 
writes. It also has issues that expose your data to total loss, see for 
instance <http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt>.

HTH,

Greg Williamson



      


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