On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: > > Greetings > > I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm > looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. > > Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a > fairly busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve: > > 1) Speed > 2) Reliability > 3) Ease of maintenance. > > Anyone care to take a punt at a layout?
G3 has hardware RAID doesn't it? That has one big advantage over software RAID. Ease of maintenance if one fails - you just pull it out, stick in a same drive and it does recovery. Linux need not know anything has happened. So for 2 and 3 I'd go hardware RAID. For 1. (speed) software RAID might have a slight advantage. You also get greatly improve flexibility - you don't have to mirror everything, right now. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
