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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 1995 21:05:08 +1596657 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        peter@bonkers.taronga.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, PVinci@ix.netcom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID]
Message-ID:  <199504031905.VAA01885@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199504021655.JAA01937@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 2, 95 09:55:58 am

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> RAID does have the negative effect of of having to write 20% more data,
> thus cutting effective bandwidth by 20%.  It is actually worse than
> this in that all writes must write to at least 2 drives no matter how
> small they are.  The removes some of the benifits of stripping.

And that is why some RAID systems use (battery backed up please ;-) RAM
caches. This works quite nicely.

> Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
> Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD

Wilko
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