On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:25:23PM +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
hmm .. do i understand correctly that you're suggesting that using
raid 10 and/or hardware raid adapter might hurt disc subsystem
performance? could you elaborate on the reasons, please?

I think it's been fairly well beaten to death that the low-end hardware raid adapters have lousy performance. It's not until you get into the range of battery-backed disk caches with 512M+ and multiple I/O channels that hardware raid becomes competitive with software raid.

Mike Stone

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