You could go raid 5 instead of raid 10 and get more useable disk. There should won't be a write penalty since writes are cached on that hardware. Reads would be faster on raid 5 than on raid 10 because there are more spindles to spread the data (less duplication). Steve Harville http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveharville On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Steven Andrew <postora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Leyi. We have reserved 2 disks for hotspare already and usable we > have is 22 disks. > > Is the 5 x 1G luns is for placing ocr and voting in high redundancy instead > of normal one. > > To answer Steve, the storage is emc, cx series. > > To answer Goran, We are designing this system to handle 1000 to 1500 IOPS. > > >