> > Now RAID 5 will always be quite slow
>
> hehe... I love generalizations like this... Please define "quite
> slow" ;)
quite slow as in, slower than taking the exact same array and changing
it into a raid 10.
> RAID 5 reads can be light-years faster than RAID 1 reads. So if your
> data usage mix consists of mostly reads, you shouldn't discount
> RAID 5... This becomes even more true when your IO mix is heavily
> multi-threaded and where "more spindles" is (almost) always better...
I'm not sure why you're bringing up raid 1 now.
Received on Fri Jan 26 16:58:59 2007
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