Re: [squid-users] Performance tuning Squid box for ISP traffic

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:23:06 +0100

> > > >Do not use RAID.

> > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:52, Lucia Di Occhi wrote:
> > > Do you mean SOFTWARE RAID? Hardware striping will definately improve
> > > performance.

> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:58:07PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Frankly I'm not sure. Most ppl on the list does not encourage using
> > RAID. I only run the cache on 1 SATA disk.

On 09.12 10:24, Henrik Krohns wrote:
> People should be more specific than just "dont use raid!". Modern hardware
> raid-boxes with GB's of cache are blazingly fast even on RAID-5. Ofcourse
> you shouldn't spend such money for cache which you can lose without problems,
> but if you have some free space on some raid-box why not use it..

even in such case it may be better and faster to simply use disks of that
RAID as different cache disks.

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