RE: [squid-users] CPU utilization performance issue

For caching disks:-
in order of preference for performance
1)volume(best, unless your data REALLY critical, then
go down the list)
2)raid 1(mirror, very costly)
3)raid 5
4)raid 0(i was surprised when i first heard it, can't
quite remember the reason)

--
Wolf
 --- Adam Aube <aaube@firstindependent.net> wrote: > >
Can somebody explain to me why it's worth
> considering putting
> > a Squid cache onto a Raid setup anyway?
> 
> RAID isn't just for precious data - it's to keep a
> disk failure
> from taking down your system. Without RAID, if your
> cache disk
> crashed, so would Squid.
> 
> Also, may systems come with all the disks setup in a
> RAID array.
> 
> That said, Squid causes major performance problems
> on RAID5,
> which the most common form of RAID.
> 
> I'm not sure about RAID1 - I think there was a
> discussion about
> using 2 mirrored RAID1 sets instead of RAID5, but
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Adam 
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