Re: hardware for file server

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article 
<2dcd50ec0801111437g3c104821keb17082fe0abae28%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Daniel Horecki <shinden%linux.pl@localhost> wrote:
>On Jan 11, 2008 11:00 PM, Pavel Cahyna <pavel%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:39:46PM +0100, Dieter Baron wrote:
>> >   I intend to use 4 750gb hard disks with a raid 5 volume on them.
>>
>> Isn't it better to use 3 or 5 disks for a raid5 volume instead of 4?
>
>Maybe it will be 3 disks on RAID5 + spare disk.
>

Well, 3+spare is really getting to the point where 1+0 is preferable.
If you are going to get 2 disks worth of data, you might at least
get it fast :-)

christos