On Jun 28, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Robert De Mars wrote: > Eric F Crist wrote: >> On May 30, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Robert De Mars wrote: >> >>> Chris Barber writes: >>> >>>> Nope, use all 6 disks in the RAID 1+0. That way you get more >>>> throughput. I like things easy, so I would just create a root >>>> partition >>>> that eats up almost all of the space, then a second small (2GB) >>>> swap >>>> area. That way you don't have to worry about running out of disk >>>> space >>>> if you make a particular partition too small. >>>> >>>> -Chris >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Forgive me for asking so many questions, but I am still a virgin >>> to RAID, >>> and this is going to be my first RAID setup. >>> >>> OK, My new server is going to have 6 drives. I am going to go with >>> RAID10. >>> >>> For the first part (raid 1), do I want to make two or three sets. >>> For Example, do I want to make drive 1+2, 3+4, 5+6 RAID 1, or can >>> I do >>> 1+2+3 >>> & 4+5+6 as RAID 1. What do you think is best. >>> >>> Then for the second part (raid 0), I guess that depends on how the >>> raid 1 >>> was setup. >>> >>> Your thoughts are greatly appreciated! >> >> >> I'd do whatever makes it easiest to service from the front of the >> system. It's a pain if you've got one array that jumps around >> *physically* on the front of the box. In other words, if the drive >> setup is two rows of three drives, I'd do one stripe on all three >> drives >> across the top and the second stripe across all three drives along >> the >> bottom. Odds are, this is going to be 1,3,5 and 2,4,6 as your >> stripes. >> If, however, you've got a box where all the drives stand on their >> edge >> in one single row, I'd recommend 1,2,3 as one stripe and 4,5,6 as the >> second. >> >> Does this answer your question? > > I finally received all the parts for the new server this past > thursday. > I assembled the box on Friday, and did the install Friday afternoon. > All went well. I ended up using RAID 10 as most suggested. The Intel > RAID Controller only let me use two disk per set for the RAID 1 > part, so > I have 3 sets. This setup seems pretty tough. Slackware 12.1 > installed > smoothly. I plan on retoring the database this weekend, and doing a > little testing before I throw it into production. So far I am > impressed > with it all. > > Thanks again to all who responded a while back to my distress call on > this matter. > > Thanks, > > Bob De Mars Bob, You should be able to build your two RAID 0 sets, and set up a RAID 1 with the two RAID 0 'disks.' You'll get better performance. --- Eric Crist