I have a HP DL180 G6 with a P410 raid controller.
Presently this runs using 4x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint SATA drives, in a RAID10 configuration using default settings.
I am about to add a backplane to increase the drive capacity from 4 to 12 drives, and I plan to install 4 more 1TB SATA Drives.
- The drives are matched and have close serial numbers (They arrived together in the Manufacturers pallet).
- Model HD103UJ 1000GB/7200rpm/32M
- Rated for 3GB/s
I will also be installing RHEL 6.1 x86_64.
My question is what would be the optimal RAID settings (stripe etc.) for this configuration?
To recap:
- 8x Model HD103UJ 1000GB/7200rpm/32M
- Rated for 3GB/s
- RAID 10 configuration.
Thanks in advance.
Update for role:
- Server is to become an iscsi target for an internal openstack deployment currently underway. (Glance)
- Will also provide virtualisation through KVM