Re: Inserts optimization?

[Gábriel Ákos <akos(dot)gabriel(at)i-logic(dot)hu>]

Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Michael Stone writes:
>
> > I still don't follow that. Why would the RAID level matter? IOW, are 
> > you actually wanting 2 spares, or are you just stick with that because 
> > you need a factor of two disks for your mirrors?
>
> RAID 10 needs pairs.. so we can either have no spares or 2 spares.

hm, interesting. I have recently set up a HP machine with smartarray 6i 
controller, and it is able to handle 4 disks in raid10 plus 1 as spare.
with some scripting you can even use linux software raid in the same setup.

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