From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 2 18:40:13 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 18:40:11 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056E737B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluto.jimking.net (root@bluto.jimking.net [216.54.255.8]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f032e7E73241 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:40:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.4]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f032e0o88770; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:40:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <00e301c0752e$7ba65e60$04e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Zero Sum" , "Alfred Perlstein" , "Thomas Seck" Cc: References: <20010102230107.A559@basildon.homerun> <20010102152109.D19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <01010313305000.03936@shalimar.net.au> Subject: Re: Vinum safe to use for raid 0? Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:40:00 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I know it is a bit off topic and if it has been discussed to death befire, > I apologise. But for the lfe of me I can't see why anyone would use RAID 5 > as other than an acadaemic exercise. Economics. If performance isn't a top priority and I need some fault tolerance I'd prefer to use RAID 5 and make more efficient use of the disk space. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message