On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Mark Mielke wrote:
> I believe hardware RAID 5 is also horrible, but since the hardware hides
> it from the application, a hardware RAID 5 user might not care.
Typically anything doing hardware RAID 5 also has a reasonable sized write
cache on the controller, which softens the problem a bit. As soon as you
exceed what it can buffer you're back to suffering again.
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD