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From: Gary Palmer <gjp@in-addr.com>
Subject: Re: hardware vs software stripping 
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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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