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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:54:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RAID performance/benchmarking
Message-ID:  <199804150054.SAA24735@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980414165246.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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In article <XFMail.980414165246.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> you wrote:
> 
> Depends on array size, type of controller, amount of cache, type of access.
> RAID arrays are not a good benefit for sequential access.

This really depends.  For Pluto's application, using RAID 3 not only gives
us reliability, but also the ability to have one of the drives in a stripe
"return late", but still maintain low latency by replacing the data through
parity reconstruction.  Since we are a realtime system where being even a
little late is unacceptable, the use of RAID gives us a big advantage.
Almost all of our accesses are sequential.

--
Justin

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