Re: Hardware for PG

Hello,

  Ahhh that is not true. RAID 5 is much, much faster than a mirror (RAID 1). I believe you are thinking about mirrored + striped which is RAID10 (also know as 1+0). That is faster than RAID 5 but requires 4 disks where RAID 5 requires 3.

J


Curt Sampson wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Steve Lane wrote:
 

I'm considering a fairly middle-of-the-road Dell PowerEdge, 2 gig RAM,
1.2GHz Xeon, and possibly a RAID 5 array.   

Since you said you've got a fairly small amount of data (5GB), definitely
go with mirroring rather than RAID. It's much faster.

cjs