StarWind Software

Hello,

I am setting up a new SW server. I will have 12 4TB drives. http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-dr ... y-3-5-hdd/

I plan to use RAID 10, but is it better to have all these drives in one RAID volume or break them down into smaller volumes?

Thanks,
Chris

Go OBR10 (One Big RAID10). Reason is simple: with one RAID set you basically do aggregate all IOPS from all the spindles into one virtual volume. So
any aligned I/O will touch all of the drives providing you the best match performance. With split drive sets you'll end with so-called "islands of storage" basically
stealing IOPS from each one and being difficult to manage.

ctcline wrote:Hello,

I am setting up a new SW server. I will have 12 4TB drives. http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-dr ... y-3-5-hdd/

I plan to use RAID 10, but is it better to have all these drives in one RAID volume or break them down into smaller volumes?

Thanks,
Chris

Thanks Anton!

You're welcomed Please share the numbers you'd manage to sqeeze from your config. Thank you!