Hardware raid in debian
To manage and monitor hardware raid, you need proper utility. Most of vendors provides raid utilities only for Redhat based linuxes. For Debian based distribution… Read More »Hardware raid in debian
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What makes a hard drive enterprise class?
With shrinking IT budgets you will at some point be tempted fill your RAID controllers with cheap desktop hard drives. You may also be tempted to replace your servers system drives with them as well. I’m going to give you some reasons why you should consider buying those pricey enterprise class drives instead.
Tweak the readahead of a raid in linux
If your dealing with big RAID arrays with a linux 2.6 kernel you will need to tweak your block device readahead settings. This can double or triple your read speeds. The tweak is very easy. Read More »Tweak the readahead of a raid in linux