Re: Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID

From: Geir Harris Hedemark <geir_at_dod.no>
Date: 20 Oct 2003 20:49:12 +0200
Message-ID: <xq3r817hhhz.fsf@tolf.ifi.uio.no>

"Chuck Lucas" <chuck.lucas_at_mspb.gov> writes:
> > But what version you implement can make a big difference. I'd stay away
> > from RAID 5 and vendor RAID
> > implementations with numbers like 2 and 4.
> What's wrong with RAID 5?

According to Oracle database administration from O'Reilly (quite old book, YMMV), RAID 5 implementations may have overheads due to the necessity of splitting the information in such a way that it is recoverable.

Geir Received on Mon Oct 20 2003 - 13:49:12 CDT