On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
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> Maybe you're the expert for this: what is RAID5 good for then? And no, I
> don't think I can afford to upgrade to RAID50 like you. <envy> ;>
RAID5 is good if you don't need high performance write, you like N+1
redundancy and you're fairly cheap.
RAID1 gives 2N redundancy, average write speed. RAID0 gives horrid
redundancy, excellent read and write speed. RAID10 is the best, RAID50 is
second-best.
"All of you get Sun StorEdge A1000 controllers, only $4000 used [vs $15000
new] with 128MB NVRAM cache, 12 drives, and a dedicated processor" =)
^^^^^^^^^^^
(NVRAM turns out pretty useful in cases of power loss; oh yeah did I
mention the redundant power supplies? =)
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