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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nice little tool but no RAID10 on there <sad face><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jason Bramwell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> James Mategko [mailto:jm@iehinc.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 16 October 2014 16:31<br><b>To:</b> bio-linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bio-Linux] Fresh install - partitioning?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All, <br><br> The following calculator is very helpful when planning arrays: <a href="http://www.raid-calculator.com/default.aspx">http://www.raid-calculator.com/default.aspx</a> <br><br>I use RAID 5 most of the time since I tend to work with my datasets in memory rather then write intermediate steps to disk. I'm planning on moving to RAID 10 when larger capacity HP ProLiant compatible HDDs/SSDs come down in price. <br><br>Best Regards, <br>- James <br><br>On 10/16/2014 7:08 AM, Raony Guimaraes Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>You are not the first person who says about btrfs Tony. Thank you, I will definitely give a try on the next few weeks on this.<br><br>I will also benchmark read/write speeds with 4 disks in raid 10 against 2 disks in raid 0.<br><br>I will leave my /swap in ext4 for now since I barely used it.<br><br>Kind regards!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>_____________________________________________<br><br>Raony Guimarăes Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas<br>PhD Student in Bioinformatics<br><br>email: <a href="mailto:raonyguimaraes@gmail.com" target="_blank">raonyguimaraes@gmail.com</a><br>skype/gtalk: raonyguimaraes<br>phone: +55 31 93404152<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Laboratory of Clinical Genomics<br>UFMG School of Medicine<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG<br>Av. Prof. Alfredo Balena, 190, Sala 321<br>Belo Horizonte, Brazil 30130-100<br>_____________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Tony Travis <<a href="mailto:tony.travis@abdn.ac.uk" target="_blank">tony.travis@abdn.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 16/10/14 14:04, Raony Guimaraes Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas wrote:<br>> Hello All!<br>><br>> I'm using Biolinux (first 7 and now 8) in a Poweredge T710 for almost<br>> 3.5 years already. I like it's performance a lot!<br>><br>> I have 2 disks of 3TB in Raid-0 where i run Biolinux 8, Postgresql 9.4<br>> and all the other things I need running really fast!<br>> [...]<br><br>Hi, Raony.<br><br>RAID0 is quite risky because if *any* of your disk fail you will lose<br>everything!<br><br>I would use RAID10 instead or use two of your disks in RAID1 and backup<br>onto the third single disk. Disk capacity is important, of course, but<br>you risk losing everything unless you are backing up your RAID0 onto<br>external or network disks.<br><br>If you *really* want to live dangerously, you might try out Btrfs!<br><br>I'm running Bio-Linux 8 on an 8-disk Btrfs RAID10 on my personal<br>Bio-Linux workstation and it performs very well. I've been doing<br>disaster-recovery testing and it all seems to work very well. The only<br>real problem is that you can't swap on a Btrfs filesystem, but you can<br>mount a file on a loop device and swap on that instead.<br><br>I think Btrfs is the future :-)<br><br>Bye,<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br> Tony.<br><br>--<br>Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and<br>Environmental Sciences, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen<br>AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK. tel <a href="tel:%2B44%280%291224%20272700">+44(0)1224 272700</a>, fax <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%291224%20272%20396">+44 (0)1224 272 396</a><br><a href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://www.abdn.ac.uk</a>, mailto:<a href="mailto:tony.travis@abdn.ac.uk">tony.travis@abdn.ac.uk</a>, skype:ajtravis<br><br><br>The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.<br>Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Bio-Linux mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bio-Linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk">Bio-Linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk</a><br><a href="http://nebclists.nerc.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/bio-linux" target="_blank">http://nebclists.nerc.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/bio-linux</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Bio-Linux mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Bio-Linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk">Bio-Linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://nebclists.nerc.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/bio-linux">http://nebclists.nerc.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/bio-linux</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></div><p>Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)</p>
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