Quote:
Originally Posted by The Prohacker
I inherited our current cluster of servers that are all RAID5. Slowly I am changing the database servers over to RAID10 for the same reasons as you. I am also moving from U160 10k drives over to newer U320 15k ones. I am also looking at Serial attached SCSI instead of moving to U320. IOwait has been a major issue with some of our DB servers and the two servers we have moved from RAID5 to RAID10 have been doing much better. We also changed the IO scheduler in our kernel to deadline.
|
x2 raid 10 is better. i got mine set up as 4x150GB (U320 15k) on raid 10. works great.