[Gluster-users] Is RAID necessary/recommended?

Lindsay Mathieson lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 23:53:49 UTC 2014


On 29 October 2014 00:43, Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com> wrote:
> It could be both necessary and recommended, depending on what you want to
> achieve. I've gone through a few awkward moments because of not having RAID
> in our distribute-replicated volume, but nothing you can't solve shutting
> down the node and replacing the drive. RAID will give you transparency and
> tolerance to drive failures and is even better if we talk about a good HW
> RAID. What about RAID 5, is that possible?

I thought RAID5 was no longer considered a good option these days,
with RAID10 being preferred?


> --
> Pavlik Salles Juan José
> Blog - http://viviendolared.blogspot.com



-- 
Lindsay


More information about the Gluster-users mailing list