[LUNI] simple RAID question

[Jason Rexilius]

to be more verbose, RAID10 is stripped and mirrored, you have 8 disks, 
you get capacity of 4 but the performance is better than 4 RAID1 mirrors 
(normally).


uteck wrote:
> Are you trying to have 1 disk, but have it be totlay redundant?  A Raid1 will 
> mirror 1 disk to another, that's it.  I think the controller you have will 
> let you build 2 mirrors, and mirror the first pair of disks to the second 
> pair. 
> 
> On Monday 14 January 2008 16:09:30 luther rochester wrote:
>> I'm setting up a new Dell Poweredge 2950 server for work. I've never
>> done RAID before, and I'm a bit confused.
>>
>> The machine has 8 x 73GB drives on a PERC 5/I RAID controller.
>>
>> I was under the impression I could set this up in RAID 1 so I would end
>> up with 4 mirrored 73GB drives. However, when I set it up for RAID 1 and
>> installed, now my OS doesn't recognize any drives other than the single
>> 73GB.
>>
>> Was I wrong in assuming I could configure it multiple ways (the only
>> options on setup were whether I wanted RAID 1,3,5, or 10)? Does 1
>> controller = one drive?
>>
>> Please help a RAID noob out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> luther
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