> Hard disk are just so cheap these days, that you can just ignore RAID > 5 / RAID 6 / RAID 50 at all and just mirror all your hard disks (RAID 1) > plus hot spare. You may even consider move to SSD (solid state disks), > which have a much longer life span (and faster access time) than any > mechanical hard disks. Actually that's not true. SSDs have a limited life time (for every cell around 100.000 write cycles). Of course the controller can optimize that but it's certainly not as much as needed for a server which is writing all the time.
SSDs are only interesting to install the main OS on it. For data it's not that secure. As far as I see the speed isn't that relevant - with a RAID and normal drives it will work out fine (the server doesn't need to be 'real time). _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
