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Hi Alex, This makes sense. We'll won't go for lots of partitions then! Thanks, Mark On 17/07/12 12:32, A.J.Martin wrote: > > Hi Mark, > if you create logical partitions you are likely to > get much poorer overall performance if you have a lot of read/write > tasks because the heads will need to move a lot more, and the OS > doesn't know the partitions are on the same physical drives. > > I did some benchmarks measuring this with some of our old hardware > which has 30x1TB HDD's when the ext3/4 limit was 8TB and saw much > performance with the partitions mapping to independent RAID vols, > although in the end we used logical partitions to maximize the > available space. > > > cheers. > Alex > > > > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Mark Slater wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> At Bham, we're just about to partition our new RAID array and were >> wondering what the best partitioning system is. At present, our >> existing arrays are divided into logical drives of 5-10TB but we were >> wondering if there's any benefit to this or should we just leave them >> as one large partition (30GB in our case)? My gut feeling was to keep >> things the same (10Gb partitions) as this *may* make any draining >> that is required in the future a bit easier. Though if this draining >> is done on a file basis I guess it doesn't :) >> >> Any comment/suggestions are welcome! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >>