On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Mark Mielke wrote:
I believe hardware RAID 5 is also horrible, but since the hardware hides it from the application, a hardware RAID 5 user might not care.
Typically anything doing hardware RAID 5 also has a reasonable sized write cache on the controller, which softens the problem a bit. As soon as you exceed what it can buffer you're back to suffering again.
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