James Williams wrote:
> The box has 4 x Opterons, 4Gb RAM & five 15k rpm disks, RAID 5. We
> wanted fast query/lookup. We know we can get fast disk IO.
RAID 5 is usually adviced against here. It's not particularly fast or
safe, IIRC. Try searching the ML archives for RAID 5 ;)
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