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From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: disk performance benchmarks
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In response to Re: disk performance benchmarks  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: disk performance benchmarks  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:49 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> It is my experience that RAID 5 is not that great for heavy write
> situations and that RAID 10 is better.
>
It is my experience that this depends entirely on how many spindles you
have in your RAID.  For 4 or 5 spindles, I find RAID10 faster.  With 14
spindles, it was more or less a toss-up for me.
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