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Re: RAID Performance Options

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let me preface by saying I am no storage expert.  I dable a bit but

 

 

you have 8 x 6 disk raid 5

so you have 8 x 1 raid5 parity disks (roughly), you can loose only 1 disk from each array before you are close to trouble ...

 

why not move to

 

1 big raid 6 ( with 1 or 2 hot spares).

 

leave you with 2 parity disks and 6 spare disks (2 of which you can assign to hot spare).

 

This way you have 48 - 2 -2 ( total spindles - 2 for raid -2 for hot spare ) = 44

 

44 spindles to handle all the io for all the sql servers.

 

where as you had

 

6 - 1 ( 6 disks in lun - 1 for parity) 5 spindles for each sql server.

 

BUT you might just have too much io for the setupp you have   im not sure

 

there is more risk, if you loose 3 drives within the recovery period your hosed... on all the sql servers.


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