[TriLUG] Setting Up RAID-5

[Brian Henning]

Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> 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"?

I'd say it is; I never said performance wasn't a concern.  In fact, I 
said throughput was my #1 concern, followed by data safety, and that 
only uptime wasn't so much a concern.  (I did say /write/ performance 
wasn't as much of a concern, which may be where Mr. Fickenscher 
misinterpreted me).

> 
> C
> 

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