New Hard Drive Layout?

blipper

• July 04, 2018 13:19

Hi, I'm looking at building some new servers, typically I have two hard drives in the server: Drive 1 - Everything Drive 2 - /backup I'm looking at doing something like this: Drive 1 - OS / cpanel / logs Drive 2 - /home Drive 3 - /MySQL Drive 4 - /backup Is breaking things apart like this going to help performance much, or is it more work than it's worth? Or what other ideas might work well?

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  Jcats

  • July 04, 2018 18:24

  It would help since you are separating the IO that would take place on a single drive especially separating /home and /var/lib/mysql but you may want to look into a raid with faster drives for some redundancy. Instead of having 3 different drives all without any redundancy, do a raid10 with 4 drives so you get 'double' the performance for read and writes and then move your backups to an external location(assuming the server only has 4 bays).

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  blipper

  • July 04, 2018 18:41

  Yes, good idea on the raid. I was looking at using AWS Elastic Block Storage which gives me high availability and durability on SSD storage.

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  cPanelLauren

  • July 06, 2018 13:42

  Glad to see @Jcats was able to give you some advice @blipper please let us know if you have any further questions! Thanks!

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