>The real performance penalty for RAID-5 is simply that writes require >so much I/O. Expect 25% of the write performance of RAID-0.
I'm was aware of the performance penalties that go along with RAID-5, but I was under the impression that calculating the parity data put quite a load on the CPU, so this is good news indeed. Thanks for your help!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Maltese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 12:43 AM Subject: Re: vinum and hot-swapping _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"