> John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am looking at 6-8 secondary backends (on FREE redundant P4 2.4GHz 
> machines which I limit to 1 HD stream or 2 SD streams ) and 5 Frontend 
> Machines; so I could have that many machines reading or writing to the 
> server at the same time. I will also be running the server with 1 PATA 
> HDD for the OS and 4 SATA HDDs in LVM for the storage to try to spread 
> disk access.
> >
> I would not use raid0 (or lvm striping or spanning) and instead use
> individual disks and stroage groups.
> 
> John
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Thanks, I will study up on storage groups, it sound like the go to spread the HDD I/O