Yes, all six drives in RAID10 will give the best performance. Partitioning is dependant on many factors like your drive size, expected db needs, OS you are using, swap, etc. _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Chris Barber Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 11:00 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] OT - Hardware Advice Nope, use all 6 disks in the RAID 1+0. That way you get more throughput. I like things easy, so I would just create a root partition that eats up almost all of the space, then a second small (2GB) swap area. That way you don't have to worry about running out of disk space if you make a particular partition too small. -Chris Robert De Mars wrote: Chris Barber writes: I use RAID 1+0 for database servers. Thanks to everyone who has responded to my post. I like the RAID 1+0 idea. I was originally planning on running the OS, and database separate from each other. How should I proceed with the install. Would it be best to run the OS as RAID 1 (2 disks) as originally planned, and run the database on RAID 1+0 (4 disks)? Or, should I run the whole thing (OS & Database) on one huge RAID 1+0? Thanks, Robert De Mars http://b-o-b.homelinux.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080529/dbc4650c/attachment.htm