Re: R.A.I.D boxes

In article <Cz2nHs.IKE_at_world.std.com>, Michael E Willett <mew_at_world.std.com> wrote:
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>RAID 3 fails on small reads and small writes and RAID 5 handles large and
>small writes poorly, while RAID 7 consistently outperforms the single
>spindle rate. The RAID 7 performance multiple increase over RAID 3 and
>RAID 5 is a function of the small read/small write/large write mix.

Wow, RAID is upto level 7 now ? I know RAID upto level 6, what's new in Level 7 ?

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