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Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? 
In-Reply-To: Message from David Greenman <dg@root.com> 
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On Mon, 01 May 2000 18:06:25 PDT, David Greenman wrote:
>
>   No, I think you don't understand the write performance issues of RAID-5.
>This is more than I want to get into discussing today, but I'll at least say
>that RAID-5 writes are *very* slow without a write-back cache.

No worries.  I was thinking of vinum+softupdates which gives a sort of
write-back cache rather than write-through.


	-- Parag Patel


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