New RAID level recommendations from Dell
New topic has been posted here: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/290301-guidance-on-san-vsa-and-server-configurations-for-virtual-environment Thanks all!
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Why oh, why can't we have RAID 1, with Distributed Parity, employing just Three Disks? Why has no-one ever thought it a good idea?
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graeme.stewart.7771 wrote: Why oh, why can't we have RAID 1, with Distributed Parity, employing just Three Disks? Why has no-one ever thought it a good idea?
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graeme.stewart.7771 wrote: Why oh, why can't we have RAID 1, with Distributed Parity, employing just Three Disks? Why has no-one ever thought it a good idea? RAID 1 = mirroring, no parity. If you had...
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Although being an absolute Virgin on RAID (exasperating stuff when it goes pear-shaped); - my general query is, will a RAID-1 simple 2 disk array 'rebuild' the damaged 'sectors', clusters or whatever...
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graeme.stewart.7771 wrote: Although being an absolute Virgin on RAID (exasperating stuff when it goes pear-shaped); - my general query is, will a RAID-1 simple 2 disk array 'rebuild' the damaged...
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graeme.stewart.7771 wrote: According to my sources [wikipædia]. RAID 3 is Striping with Parity. I thought I'd have a half-decent search, and my efforts produced absolutely no references yet to simple...
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honestly, I'd rather go with a 3 disk raid1- less processor intensive than parity generation, and what's to keep one from reading from all three in turn? faster read speeds, no parity generation lag...
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Magnus369 wrote: honestly, I'd rather go with a 3 disk raid1- less processor intensive than parity generation, and what's to keep one from reading from all three in turn? faster read speeds, no parity...
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Scott Alan Miller wrote: RAID 50 is riskier than RAID 6 but costs just as much in drives used. If you don't want RAID 10 because your data isn't that important, that's fine. There are tons of times...
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Lisa Lyons wrote:~Sigh~ So I set up a new SAN on Tuesday last week and on the advice of the EQL specialist, set it up as RAID 50.Looks like I'll be changing the RAID settings. Damn.It's not a big deal...
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JoeMatuscak wrote:Lisa Lyons wrote:~Sigh~ So I set up a new SAN on Tuesday last week and on the advice of the EQL specialist, set it up as RAID 50.Looks like I'll be changing the RAID settings....
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Lisa Lyons wrote:Scott Alan Miller wrote: RAID 50 is riskier than RAID 6 but costs just as much in drives used. If you don't want RAID 10 because your data isn't that important, that's fine. There...
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John White wrote:Lisa Lyons wrote:Scott Alan Miller wrote: RAID 50 is riskier than RAID 6 but costs just as much in drives used. If you don't want RAID 10 because your data isn't that important, that's...
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John White wrote:Lisa Lyons wrote:Scott Alan Miller wrote: RAID 50 is riskier than RAID 6 but costs just as much in drives used. If you don't want RAID 10 because your data isn't that important, that's...
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would you use raid 6 (or 60) on a 12 x 4tb array?
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ferminrodriguez wrote:would you use raid 6 (or 60) on a 12 x 4tb array?Almost never 60, that's just too small of an array for it to help much. Maybe 14 or 16 drives, maybe. More likely closer to 20...
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