On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 15:16, Hubert depesz Lubaczewski wrote:
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> anyway: what i understood is that usually the best (performance-wise),
> would be to put:
> xlog - separate - unraid'ed disk, or raid0
Unless your data is *easily* recreatable, NEVER RAID0!!
> tables - any raid, but not raid 1
> indices - any raid, but not raid 1
Why not RAID1 (mirroring)? It speeds up both reads and writes.
Things are also dependent on the RAID controller, since they
all have different strengths and weaknesses.
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