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Subject: RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data
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> It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many
> many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires

maybe with RAID5, but using RAID5 today (huge disk sizes, little sense to 
save on disk space) instead of RAID1/10 doesn't make much sense, as RAID5 
is slow on writes by design