[asterisk-users] Suggestion of Server Specifications for Asterisk

[Benny Amorsen]

Leandro Dardini <ldardini at gmail.com> writes:

> A single sata disk will be an unacceptable single point of failure. Get
> three disks and get in raid5 configuration. You'll gain in safety and
> speed.

RAID-5 is slower than single disks when it comes to write IOPS (a commit
is not done until the slowest disk has answered). Avoid it for write
heavy workloads at all costs unless you are writing sequentially in one
file with write caching enabled.


/Benny