On 09/08/2008, Henrik <henke@xxxxxx> wrote: > But random writes should be faster on a RAID10 as it doesn't need to > calculate parity. That is why people suggest RAID 10 for datases, correct? If it had 10 spindles as opposed to 4 ... with 4 drives the "split" is (because you're striping and mirroring) like writing to two. Cheers, Andrej