On 11/27/05, Stephen Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 01:50 -0800, trebejo wrote:
> I'm surprised at how little you guys care for the RAID 5 idea.
...
You should be aware that there is a performance penalty for using RAID5;
every time you write a sector to disk, you must read the same sector
from each of the other drives in your array and recompute the checksums.
For a music library that doesn't change much (i.e., many more reads than
writes), you won't pay too much of a penalty for using RAID5. If you
intend to use the headless server for other applications as well, it may
be worth investigating either RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 instead (RAID 0 is, I
think, worse than useless, but it looks like you already know that).
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