I still await the data that a single drive performs better than RAID when multiple users are reading/writing. And by multiple I mean more than several hundred.
This article you posted is an argument against certain types of RAID, not against RAID itself. There is also nothing here that offers alternatives, it's easy to say don't do xyz...we don't have any idea what you should do...but don't do xyz. Without alternatives, your arguments are meaningless. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:17 AM, tjpa <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > There is actually a website devoted to the "Battle Against Any Raid 'F'"... > http://miracleas.com/BAARF/ > > "The reason for BAARF is that we’ve had it. Enough is Enough. For 15 years > a lot of the world’s best database experts have been arguing back and forth > with people (vendors and others) about the pros and cons of RAID-3, -4 and > -5. Cary Millsap has written excellent articles on RAID technologies that > should have stopped the use- and pointless discussions many years ago. Many > others have written splendid articles about it as well. Many. James Morle > and others have written books where they discussed the uselessness of RAID-F > stuff. It has been the same arguments, the same mistakes, the same > misunderstandings that have guided the discussions for all those years. The > same frustrations from people that knew RAID-F is not a good choice. The > laws of Nature are still solidly in place and are not going to be changed by > RAID-F vendors anytime soon. So we’ve decided to stop arguing and debating > with people about it. We will lower our blood pressure permanently by > refusing to have any more arguments about it." > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
