On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:24:49PM -0700, michael@etalon.net wrote: > I have 4 disks for a software raid configuration. > I'm pondering about using either a 4 disk raid5 array, or > a 4 disk raid10 array. > > I'm interested in speed mostly, but data integrity is important too. > I'm running a web, proxy, file, email server all in one. (Sarge box) If the amount of space is not too important then I would use RAID 10 as that provides better write performance and better redundancy compared to RAID 5. The read performance should never be worse and may even be better. See the linux-raid list for more info..
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