[TriLUG] Setting Up RAID-5

[Christopher L Merrill]

Brian Henning wrote:
> Lee Fickenscher wrote:
>> If uptime and performance aren't really a concern, why even bother 
>> with raid?
> 
> Two reasons:
> 1) Throughput, particularly on read.  Striping across several disks 
> means I can move more than one drive's max data rate at once (right?). 

Uhhhmmm...isn't that "performance"?

C

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