On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:49 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:22:17 +0100, Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:28:32AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: [snip] > On an environment that's heavy on writes, RAID 5's overhead doesn't > really justify the costs. You'd be better off with RAID 1 for that.
Note that large-cache controllers mitigate RAID-5's write overhead. Over course, they cost more, blah blah, but when you are putting together a few TB worth of SCSI disks, RAID-5 becomes a necessity (unless you have the deepest of pockets), and so the cost of such up-scale controllers isn't so horrible. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B The difference between drunken sailors and Congressmen is that drunken sailors spend their own money.
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