Re: [GENERAL] External Storage of data dir

2012-08-11 Thread Craig Ringer
On 08/10/2012 09:59 PM, Benjamin Adams wrote: > Server <> iSCSI (6 Bay, Raid 5 or 10) Use RAID 10 if you care even a little bit about performance. Especially with the latency added by iSCSI. I have read GB can get 130 Mps. Megabytes per second? Not likely. AFAIK 125 is the theoreti

[GENERAL] External Storage of data dir

2012-08-10 Thread Benjamin Adams
I'm looking to expand my old home server running on Ubuntu Server I only have ~100 GB system drive (4 HDs, Raid 5, SAS). Backups are to a USB 1.1 (2TB) I do have lots of spare old SATA HD's with a spare 1GB connection to server box. I have been looking into getting an iSCSI system to run my /data