On 05/28/2014 09:32 AM, Christian Balzer wrote:
> 
> I was about to write something similar yesterday, but work interfered. ^o^
> 
> For bandwidth a RAID(Z*/6, don't even think about RAID5 or equivalent) is
> indeed very nice, but for IOPS it will be worse than a RAID10.
> 
> Of course a controller with a large writeback cache can pretty alleviate
> or at least hide those issues up to a point. ^.^

Also, all benchmarks suck(tm). Are you comparing the exact same workload
on the exact same disks on the exact same controller etc. Sure you can
have a software raid 6 that's faster than hardware raid 10 -- it may
take some work but it should be perfectly doable.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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