[nycbug-talk] Memory sizing

[Francisco Reyes]

Pete Wright writes:

> SATA drives are pretty good, we use them for some things although for
> something as critical as a database i would not trust them especially if
> you expecting to have frequent/large disk IO happening.

They are not too bad on RAID 10.

> looked at using graid3(8)?  this will help maximize space and speed of
> your disks while providing some redundancy via a parity device. 

But isn't that software raid? At least that what it seems (just did man 
graid3). We always do hardware raid.