From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 2 18:50:18 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 18:50:17 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA3737B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14De02-0001WK-00; Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:50:02 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:49:57 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Zero Sum Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Thomas Seck , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum safe to use for raid 0? In-Reply-To: <01010313305000.03936@shalimar.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Zero Sum wrote: > I know it is a bit off topic and if it has been discussed to death befire, > I apologise. But for the lfe of me I can't see why anyone would use RAID 5 > as other than an acadaemic exercise. > > If this seems like a troll, I'm sorry, but I have had this argument so many > time in RL. In the past I have always managed to get better performance by > throwing RAID 5 out. But you don't use RAID 5 for performance. RAID is about reliablity. If you want reliability and performance, RAID10 wins. If you are operating on a budget use RAID5, or if you are putting toghether a lot of storage, RAID50. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message