On 22/12/2011 7:25 p.m., Benjamin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While we are planning for fast disk, h/w vendor tells that for 
> SAS(15k) they suggest raid controller.But as per squid , they do not 
> suggest RAID terminology.So suppose if we use disks as normal each 
> single disk rather than as single raid ( bunch of disk) with raid 
> controller, is has any performance impact?
>
> What is best for disk ? each disk as single disk or need to go with 
> raid controller with as a raid ( bunch of disks) ?
> Kindly suggest us, what is the better option while planing for h/w 
> selection.?
>
> Thanks,
> Benjamin
As Chai Wei said, RAID on the OS partition for system protection. But 
For the Squid cache_dir individual disks.
On a high performance install such as the one you are aiming for Squid 
will push the disks to their hardware I/O limits, RAID just gets in the 
way. If you have to use RAID at all (SAN situations) make sure it has a 
high performance hardware controller and is set to the RAID type with 
lowest possible overheads.
Amos
Received on Thu Dec 22 2011 - 09:16:24 MST
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