RE: [squid-users] Hardware specs

From: Adam Aube <aaube@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:42:51 -0400

> It is hard to find any worse real life workload for RAID5 than
> Squid cache.

> If you want to raid your cache then use mirroring, not RAID5.

What about RAID 0, striping the data across multiple drives? Normally
that will improve disk performance.

Lacks redundancy, but data loss isn't much of an issue with a cache.
Just make sure that ONLY your Squid cache in on the RAID set.

Adam

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