On 2/18/2013 9:01 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Assuming HDD only, is there broad use case for RAID 4 that RAID 5 isn't equally or better suited for? > > What about making the parity drive an SSD, keeping the other drives HDD? Why are you revisiting RAID-4? It's dead tech, decades ago. It has no advantages over subsequent RAID levels, yet significant handicap. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html