Actually I have this kind of configuration:
- 4 HDDs and 1 SSD linked via SATA
- 1 SSD (8GB) linked via eSATA
RAID 10 of the 4 HDD partitioned as [ / ] and [ swap ]
SSD1 as [ /boot]
SSD as [swap]
Now for my new configuration I am thinking as something like this:
- [/boot] SSD1
- [/] md10 [ HDD1:HDD2 as RAID 0 → HDD3:HDD4 as RAID1 ]
- [/tmp, swap0] md0 [ partitions of HDD1:HDD2]
- [swap0] SSD2 (8GB via eSATA)
My initial idea was to use all the 4 HDDs as [/tmp] and [swap] but then I thought that the 2 HDDs (3 and 4) working as redundancy could create slow downs.
But setting up the 2 partitions of the 2 HDDs (1 and 2), actually working as RAID 0 of the md10, as RAID0 too, it shouldn't create bottlenecks.
Do you agree?