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In message <20040820193547.GZ30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek w
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>As you can see RAID5 is only faster in READ tests for 15 and 100 processes
>working in parallel. As I can see, RAID3 is faster in all the rest tests.
>
>PS. I wonder about read optimization, so parity component can be also
>    used for reading in round-robin fashion...

I would far rather have an option to give me data-integrity checking ?

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