Quick question on setting up RAID for a Windows file server.<BR><BR>When setting up a RAID-5 array, what are the optimal settings for read and write policy on the ...

My freshly-upgraded ubuntu 8.04 machine has three hard drives in it: a 250 GB drive for the system itself and two 750 GB drives. My plan is to make the two big drives into a RAID1 array for shared ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...