On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:56:11 -0400, Chris Meadors wrote: > RAID 1 is faster if you don't have the CPU. But with a hardware RAID > card, or basically any CPU made in the last five years, you should have > enough power to perform the xor calculations needed to distribute the
It's one of things you should benchmark for the situation you're in. I've benchmarked RAID1+0 (or 0+1) and RAID 5 on a Sun StorEdge 3510 to find that RAID5 writes are 30% slower which is pretty consistent with what I see in other private (and older) benchmarks. Mind you I don't use Linux-based storage management. -- Mike Meredith, Senior Informatics Officer University of Portsmouth: Hostmaster, Postmaster and Security "Spammers on the Internet are like hula hoops, pet rocks, or subway alligators; only incredibly fertile, incontinent, and able to fly. And it's still illegal to shoot them, so bring an umbrella." SC, on SPAM-L. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
