On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Tom Evans wrote: > I have done (and still do raid5) without performance impact (especially > what I saw when the card was in a different slot). > I will redo that array as raid5 to see if it makes a difference - I know > software raid is expensive, just figured 6 wouldn't be too much more cpu > intensive than level 5.
I suspect raid6 uses more than twice the cpu overhead of raid5. raid5 is just parity, but raid6 has to do a bit more than just simple parity. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
