> PS: i wouldn't recommend software raid 5 if you care about performance. i > am going to convert one of my raid-5 machines (4 x 80GB barracudas) to > raid-1 (2 x 200GB barracudas) very soon because i'm unhappy with the > performance(*)...if i had a spare approx $600AUD, i'd buy an IDE raid card > with at least 32MB non-volatile cache memory and that would give me raid-5 > with decent performance, but it's just not worth that much to me for a > workstation.
Any tests on RAID-5 being slower than RAID-1 (a problem in software-raid implementation?) ? I have always thought RAID-5 is the fastest... But I suppose you will get a performance raise due to changing disks to more faster ones (more volume almost always gives more speed, except for the cases when that new volume is made by adding plates/surfaces/heads) Dmitry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
