# RAID Choice

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/raid-choice/2041>\
**Category:** LAMP Stack\
**Created:** [December 20, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/raid-choice/2041 "2006-12-20T18:57:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sprbck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@sprbck](https://forums.percona.com/u/sprbck)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/raid-choice/2041/1 "2006-12-20T18:57:56Z")

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Hello,

I’m trying to decide a RAID setup, for a scenario where i estimate 90% of queries will be SELECT, but like 200 different databases, small ones.

This would be on a DELL PE2950 with up to 8 SAS 15KRPM disks. What would be fastest for this, RAID5 or RAID10?

Tks.

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**Author:** ![Peter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/peter/32/2_2.png) [@Peter](https://forums.percona.com/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/raid-choice/2041/2 "2007-01-10T10:59:02Z")

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Hi,

thanks for your advice. I recently purchased 2 servers with 8 GB, and now I’m planning to purchase another 8 GB for each server, so that in the end