Re: With 4 disks should I go for RAID 5 or RAID 10

[Mark Mielke <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florian Weimer wrote:

seek/read/calculate/seek/write since the drive moves on after the
read), when you read you must read _all_ drives in the set to check
the data integrity.
    

I don't know of any RAID implementation that performs consistency
checking on each read operation. 8-(
  

Dave had too much egg nog... :-)

Yep - checking consistency on read would eliminate the performance benefits of RAID under any redundant configuration.

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke <mark@xxxxxxxxx>