[Nottingham] RAID stripe size?

[Sergiusz Pawlowicz]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:50, Sergiusz Pawlowicz
<sergiusz at pawlowicz.name> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> To tap into the collective knowledge and opinion...
>>
>> What is the 'optimum' RAID stripe size for RAID0 (stripe)? Same as for
>> RAID1 (mirror)?
>>
>> Any difference for when that is on a HDD or an SSD?
>
> it will depend on the data and the application.  generally more
> smaller files - smaller stripe, etc.

and if you create raid on HD, you should stick to the blocks for
cylinder value, to avoid seeking procedures

s.