Re: opinion on RAID choice

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:14, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:26:14PM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote:
> >
> > My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster
> > than RAID1+0.
>
> Also depends on your filesystem and volume manager.  As near as I can
> tell, you do _not_ want to use RAID 5 with Veritas.

Why should Veritas care?  Or is it that Veritas has a high overhead
of small block writes?

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