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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:00:20 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAID1 vs RAID5 [ was Re: 1 processor vs. 2]
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403051058360.22978@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <40475438.9020900@mac.com>
References:  <000601c4016d$cdb571e0$0a06a8c0@rekon> <200403040154.14373.danny@ricin.com> <40475438.9020900@mac.com>

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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Also, RAID-5 performance degrades horribly if a drive is down, whereas RAID-1
> does fine...

Using the algorithm you indicate below, RAID-5 performance would not
degrade on the loss of a drive, it's start out that badly.

> A five-disk RAID-5 array has to read 4 sectors and write five sectors if you
> change one byte.

Wrong; see previous response.


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