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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Choosing RAID Level / Stripe Size

Posted on 2:04 AM by Unknown
Below interesting articles on how to choose your RAID level / stripe size.

Good litterature on RAID :
http://www.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/hdd/hdd.html

RAID Level Explained :
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/choose-a-raid-level-that-works-for-you/3237

RAID Stripe Explained :
http://www.anandtech.com/show/788/5

RAID Benchmarks :
https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Performance

RAID Calculator :
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/art-raid-estimator.htm

In any case, always plan your workload type (Read/Writes, Sequential/Random, Large/Small File, Number of concurrent access).
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