http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/raid5-vs-raid-10-safety-performance.html#comments
RAID for safety and performance. 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/ ** *************************************************************************
