[asterisk-users] Asterisk and RAID

[Gareth Blades]

Alejandro Cabrera Obed wrote:
> Dear all, I'll install Asterisk 1.4 in an IBM xSeries 226 server with
> four HD's available, using CentOS as the OS.
> 
> What's the best RAID type recommendation ??? RAID 1 or RAID 5 ???
> 
> Regards
> 
> Alejandro
> 

Either RAID1 with a couple of spare drives or RAID5 across 3 discs with 
a hot spare.
I assume disc capacity is not an issue.

If the system supports RAID 6 that would be ideal as you will have two 
drives and two parity sets so could cope with 2 simultaneous drive 
failures compared to 1 for raid1 and raid5.