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Guneyd
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Damn, just found out that the leaseweb 100TB server I've been meaning to get is no raid  . I can get a normal leaseweb server with RAID10, but that would mean expensive bandwidth...
I'm also going to get nginx installed on the server. Does the RAID really make that much of a difference when it comes to the download speed for users? |
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nyan
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| Posted: May 20, 2011 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Guneyd wrote: | Damn, just found out that the leaseweb 100TB server I've been meaning to get is no raid . I can get a normal leaseweb server with RAID10, but that would mean expensive bandwidth...
I'm also going to get nginx installed on the server. Does the RAID really make that much of a difference when it comes to the download speed for users? |
What no raid?
Just ask them to install the server the following way
disk 1:
main partition: 20 gb
files partition: 910 gb (the rest)
disk 2:
dummy/whatever partition: 20 gb
files partition: 910 gb
disk 3 and 4:
files partition: 930 gb
Then use MDADM to manually create two software raid 1 arrays
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-creating-software-raid-one-arrays/
I don't see how that wouldn't work on the 100 tb server...
You need raid 1 or 10 because you can't really afford to lose data in case of a drive crash... About performance I can't really say anything since I use 100 mbit servers and i can say that one drive can also easily max that connection:/ |
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Guneyd
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| Posted: May 21, 2011 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| nyan wrote: | | Guneyd wrote: | Damn, just found out that the leaseweb 100TB server I've been meaning to get is no raid . I can get a normal leaseweb server with RAID10, but that would mean expensive bandwidth...
I'm also going to get nginx installed on the server. Does the RAID really make that much of a difference when it comes to the download speed for users? |
What no raid?
Just ask them to install the server the following way
disk 1:
main partition: 20 gb
files partition: 910 gb (the rest)
disk 2:
dummy/whatever partition: 20 gb
files partition: 910 gb
disk 3 and 4:
files partition: 930 gb
Then use MDADM to manually create two software raid 1 arrays
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-creating-software-raid-one-arrays/
I don't see how that wouldn't work on the 100 tb server...
You need raid 1 or 10 because you can't really afford to lose data in case of a drive crash... About performance I can't really say anything since I use 100 mbit servers and i can say that one drive can also easily max that connection:/ |
Thank you for the reply. I did ask them and it really is without any (hardware) RAID. All I can do is software RAID. |
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