Raid 5 performance

[Ralph Doncaster]

Make sure you use 3 or 5 disks, not 4.
Use hdparm to tune the transfer rates of each disk.

Ralph Doncaster, IStop.com president
6042147 Canada Inc.

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Martin Duclos wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I've decided to install a raid 5 on a file server at home. CPU is pentium
> 120MHz with 64M ram. I know it's rather scarce but my question is, is there
> a way to measure where the biggest performance hit will be? I want to know
> of a way I can monitor which compenent is the bottleneck. Will increasing
> memory improve performance? Will faster CPU make a difference? I'm looking
> for a real technique (ie numbers) from which I can get a better
> understanding. I've looked at google groups and all I can really find are
> opinions and vague references to "if you have this or that it might give you
> better..."
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin Duclos
>
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