Leon Olmschenk wrote:
> Great resource for all RAID questions. My personal opinion is the RAID
> 10 is going to be slower because of double writes for each command.
> While 5 writes the info once, the Raid 10 is striped and mirrored,
> causing 2 writes and 2 verifies per write. Plus the added cost of
> mirrored disks.
There is no verification of writes performed.
BTW:
Some storage applications demand a certain minimum throughput. Raid 10
is the best choice here in that it's degraded mode does not take much of
a performance hit (as opposed to RAID 5 which has to do a lot of extra
parity work.)
<>< Lance.
