> Is software RAID 10 decent performance? > depends on the workload. committed random writes are greatly accelerated by battery backed write caches on real raid controllers. this greatly speeds up things like transactional databases. if your workload is mostly read, software raid performs quite adequately. with 4 x raid10, you can be doing 4 different reads at once, or two writes simultaneously, as long as you have plenty of pending IO requests. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos