[wplug] Help deciding a RAID+LVM+LUKS setup

[Justin Smith]

Well, you've got to keep in mind that any performance increase whatsoever is desirable to an overclocker. Higher speed means more bragging rights!

Kind of makes me miss the days when there was a point to pushing desktop systems. These days, hardware is so powerful that you can generally get by on whatever parts you (or the manufacturers) decide to include.

On Monday, July 22, 2013 03:26:35 PM you wrote:
> On 7/22/13 3:04 PM, Justin Smith wrote:
> > LVM and different levels of RAID are new to me but very, very interesting.
> > Out of curiosity, did any of you ever “short stroke” RAID 0 hard drives? It’s
> > an arrangement that only uses the outermost (fastest) part of each
> > platter. In years gone by, that was all the rage among gamers - that and n-
> > key rollover, courtesy of a well-designed mechanical keyboard.
> 
> 	I've heard need for this in early AV systems, but disks are fast enough 
> where this isn't quite an issue. If your gaming rig is 
> swapping/reading/writing - and not keeping up during the action - 
> there's something seriously wrong with something. The performance 
> increase in something like that should be pretty slim - simply using 
> faster disks, an SSD, or using seperate disks and controllers for 
> OS/apps/data/swap seems like a better choice to me.
> 
> 	(Early days of AV, we were *lucky* to sustain 5MBps from an array of 4 
> SCSI disks. I once cooked a burrito on a late '90s-model Seagate Baracuda.)
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