In my experience Raid-5 is much slower that Raid-1. I have had
customers improve their system performance significantly by switching
from Raid 5 to Raid 1. Especially if you get a dual channal Raid-0
controller your system will perform much better than a Raid-5 system.


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Sudheer Palaparambil"
<sudheer.clt@...> wrote:

>
> Hi Adam,
>
> I am developing an application for a client. They have around 30
> branches across the state. Data (No BLOBS) is transferred to
> Head Office on a daily basis. Approximately 15000 records will
> be added to H O DB daily.
>
> Also let me know the size of memory.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sudheer Palaparambil
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam" <s3057043@...>
> To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:06 AM
> Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Best suited RAID for Firebird ?
>
>
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Sudheer Palaparambil"
> > <sudheer.clt@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Which RAID is best suited for Firebird (Linux). Software or
> > Hardware ?
> >
> > Hardware, but it has nothing to do with Firebird. Software RAID

may not

> > save you if a crash occurs somewhere in the file system driver.
> > Hardware RAID 5 with 3 x 15K RPM SCSI drives would be a good

start.

> >
> > But without giving us any idea of what your software does, what is
> > being stored in the database, and the sorts of loads you expect.

Any

> > database is going to have some Disk I/O bottlenecks, so in

general the

> > faster, the better.
> >
> > Adam
> >
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