Re: hp ciss on freebsd

On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote:

> I will get four 72 GB sas-disks at 15K rpm. Reading the archives
> suggest raid 1+0 for optimal read/write performance, but with a solid
> raid-controller raid 5 will also perform very well when reading.

If you only have 4 drives, I'd recommend not to go with RAID5. You  
want to max out spindles.  The 256k RAM may not be enough of a cache  
too.