[Gluster-users] Is RAID necessary/recommended?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 29 October 2014 12:47, James <purpleidea at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Lindsay Mathieson
> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, thanks James, Juan.
>>
>> Given my budget, I think I'll switch to using a single 3TB drive in
>> each node, but add an extra 1GB Intel network card to each node and
>> bond them for better network performance.
> Did you test your workload to find your bottlenecks, or is this all
> just conjecture? Test!


Very true:)

I'm not committing to anything as of yet and I have no urgency in
getting things set up. I know what my current bottleneck is - the NAS.
Once I get my new hardware installed I'll be testing and experimenting
with configuartions before choosing a setup and migrating the VM's.

-- 
Lindsay