> Generally RAID 5. RAID 1 is only faster if you are doing a lot of
> parellel reads. I.e. you have something like 10 agents reading at the
> same time. RAID 5 also works better under parallel load than a single
> drive.
yep, but write performance sucks.
> The fastest of course, is multidrive RAID0. But there's no redundancy.
With 4 drives I'd always go for raid 10, fast and secure
> Oddly, my testing doesn't show any appreciable performance increase in
> linux by layering RAID5 or 1 over RAID0 or vice versa, something that
> is usually faster under most setups.
Is this with linux software raid? raid10 is not significantly faster? cant
believe that...
Regards,
Bjoern