On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Bryan Batchelder wrote:
> Also, isn't RAID5 incredibly slow on anything but a well cached hardware
RAID5 is CPU bound, so the CPU on the RAID controller becomes the
limiting factor. That's why the more recent RAID cards have very
beefy CPU's (eg SA1100's at 200MHz up[1]), and also why Linux
software RAID5 does so well (cause it has Alpha/Pentium11 CPU's for
it's use)
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[1] Almost same kind as in the Corel Netwinder computers.
