On 7 Aug 2005 at 11:53, Phil Orpen wrote: > On 7-Aug-2005 01:10 Bart Trojanowski wrote: > | In general, I would say... > | > | / for all your OS, so ~5G > | /home for user data, depends, 5-10G > | /var for server data and logs, 5-10G > > | You mentioned software RAID... don't use RAID5. Spend the $50 to get > | another 40G drive and do RAID1 (mirror). > > Re: raid1 v.s. raid5... agreed. go for simplicity before performance. > Besides, unless you have GigE or faster network on that server, you > won't gain much performance from raid5. I have a RAID-5 box as my main development server. It's not there for performance. It's there for reliability. I was given an Adaptec 2400A which user IDE drives. So far, it's been great. I also use RAID-1 on my workstation. It's there so a single disk failure doesn't require a full restore. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/