On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [missing attribution] > > > > You compute max data rates by considering the most optimistic > > scenario, which is large sequetial writes. For *this* > > situation write rate will be higher than a single disk's. > > How can the RAID5 write rate be higher for the whole array if not > only it needs to write the data to all if its drives, but also > compute and write a parity block?
Easy, you can write simultaneously to more than one drive, assuming the drive was the bottleneck in the first place. -- David Taylor _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
