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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:57:52 -0500
From:      Gary Palmer <gjp@in-addr.com>
To:        up@3.am
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hardware vs software stripping 
Message-ID:  <87942.949373872@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from <up@3.am>  of "Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:28:41 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001311627210.14233-100000@richard2.pil.net> 

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up@3.am wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.4.10.10001311627210.14233-100000@richard2.pil.net>:
> IIRC, the main difference between 3 and 5 is that 3 puts all of the parity
> blocks on one spindle, whereas 5 distributes them across all of the
> spindles.

You're confusing RAID3 with RAID4.  RAID4 is RAID 0 with parity (on
one spindle) and RAID 5 is RAID 0 with striped parity.


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