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Re: [ADSM-L] When can too many disk volumes be detrimental

2016-01-27 11:10:45
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] When can too many disk volumes be detrimental
From: Skylar Thompson <skylar2 AT U.WASHINGTON DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:06:30 -0800
I would actually keep DB and logs separate, avoid putting the DB on RAID-5
due to its high write penalty. We have our DB on 15K RPM SAS disks in 3x
4-disk RAID-10 sets. The logs we keep on RAID-1 collocated with the OS,
since it's pretty low load and all sequential I/O.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:02:25AM -0500, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> The box came with 6-6TB drives and 4-slots empty. We moved 6-600GB SAS
> drives into the empty slots and created another RAID5 array of ~1.7TB for
> additional storage. Sounds like maybe we should move the DB/logs/archlogs
> to it?

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