I am trying to figure out the best configuration for my hard drives. I have a new 4 channel SATAII card that supports RAID 0, 1 (it was cheap, $30) and am looking at purchasing another RAID card that will focus on performance.
These are the drives that I have: All are SATA
2 74GB Raptors
2 36GB Raptors
2 500GB WD 5000KS (16mb cache) SATA II
1 500GB WD5000YS (16mb cache, RAID Edition 2) SATA II
***I will be purchasing another of these soon, to run mirrored***
I plan on running Ubuntu 6.10 with VMWare server. I will most likely have a few virtual servers running at a time, ie:
Win XP Pro
-Fedora 6
-Centos 4.4
-OpenBSD
-Ubuntu server 6.10
-MAYBE Vista, lol (that should be fun under virtualization)
My thoughts are to run the 2 74's stripped and possibly the 2 36's stripped or the 36's without an array. My thoughts on this are that maybe the most resource intensive Virtual OS's could be run on their own Raptor 36Gb drive (XP Pro, Vista, Fedora). Would this be faster than running all the virtual OS's off the stripped 74 Array?
These are the drives that I have: All are SATA
2 74GB Raptors
2 36GB Raptors
2 500GB WD 5000KS (16mb cache) SATA II
1 500GB WD5000YS (16mb cache, RAID Edition 2) SATA II
***I will be purchasing another of these soon, to run mirrored***
I plan on running Ubuntu 6.10 with VMWare server. I will most likely have a few virtual servers running at a time, ie:
Win XP Pro
-Fedora 6
-Centos 4.4
-OpenBSD
-Ubuntu server 6.10
-MAYBE Vista, lol (that should be fun under virtualization)
My thoughts are to run the 2 74's stripped and possibly the 2 36's stripped or the 36's without an array. My thoughts on this are that maybe the most resource intensive Virtual OS's could be run on their own Raptor 36Gb drive (XP Pro, Vista, Fedora). Would this be faster than running all the virtual OS's off the stripped 74 Array?