Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

[wagnerc@plebeian.com (Chris Wagner)]

At 03:35 PM 9/6/04 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
>For writing, RAID5 tends to be noticeably slower than RAID1, especially for 
>writes smaller than stripe size, because a write actually is a 
>read-recompute-write cycle. 


If ur looking for a fast RAID product that's reasonably priced I'ld take a
look at NetCell's SyncRAID product (http://www.netcell.com/) which uses a 64
bit RAID-3 variant they call RAID XL.  It got a good review from Tom's
Hardware Guide and it looks like they've really solved the read-calc-write
problem of RAID-5.




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