> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil
> Sent: 16. marts 2005 17:43
>
> Writing data to a raid 5 takes x+y+z amount of work where y 
> is described above and z is calculating a CRC stripe which 
> must now also be saved to a hard drive.

And from my understanding, calculating the CRC requires knowing both the data 
in the sector overwritten and the previous CRC data, and thus 2 reads. So thats 
2 reads, and 2 writes to write a single block of data. 

Regards,

Kaj

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