Re[2]: Point-of-Sale RAID application

[Evgeny Stambulchik]

"m. allan noah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  3. raid 5 is uneeded, as raid1 gives better read performance

Hmm, did you actually compare? I haven't benchmarked a 2-disk array, but
with 3 disks, RAID5 beats RAID1 on BOTH writes and reads. Theoretically,
this shouldn't happen, but it's a current state of the software RAID1...

Regards,

Evgeny


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