[asterisk-users] Suggestion of Server Specifications for Asterisk

[Shahid H]

Instead of buying expensive disk.. I might setup a ramdisk (about 2GB) to
do 200 calls recordings.

Once the call hangup/completed it will then move recording file to SATA HDD.

What do you think of this?


On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk>wrote:

> 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
>
>
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