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Date:      Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:26:01 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, bill@bilver.magicnet.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RAID1 Software vs Hardware
Message-ID:  <19981109142601.F499@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811080724.AAA03989@pluto.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 12:17:36AM -0700
References:  <19981108173920.N499@freebie.lemis.com> <199811080724.AAA03989@pluto.plutotech.com>

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On Sunday,  8 November 1998 at  0:17:36 -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>>> RAID 3 is still used, and is still useful.  All of Pluto's products (see
>>> http://www.plutotech.com) use RAID 3.  It works quite well for video data.
>>
>> I suppose it gives you good throughput.  But how do you handle the I/O
>> load?  Are you effectively delivering a single video stream?
>
> RAID 3 is ideal when your data requests are always a multiple of the strip
> size. 

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.  In my book, RAID-3
is a RAID-4 with a stripe size of 1 byte.  How do you define it?

Greg
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