On Feb 19, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Because it's offered in Fedora 18's GUI installer. > It's dead tech, decades ago. It has no > advantages over subsequent RAID levels, yet significant handicap. That's what I thought. But is it remotely practical/useful to use HDDs for data drives, and one SSD as the parity drive to eliminate the parity write bottleneck of RAID 4? Chris Murphy-- 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
