From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 17 17:06:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16764 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:06:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16753 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:06:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA12463; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:27:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA11577; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:27:42 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981218112742.B486@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:27:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Patton , Dan Swartzendruber Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? References: <3.0.5.32.19981215231329.00966ae0@mail.kersur.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Patton on Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:05:29AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 17 December 1998 at 1:05:29 -0500, Matthew Patton wrote: > for a news spool you want SPEED, SPEED, and SPEED!! You do *NOT* want RAID5 > (it's damn slow on writes) and most definately NOT in software. Why not? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message