Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Herman Knief <herman@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's really a question of what you are trying to accomplish and what 
RAID level you use.  Do you need fast writes, fast reads equal 
performance for both?  Are you looking for redundancy or data 
protection?  Is capacity a concern?

- Herman

Jack Malone wrote:

> A
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> > Anyone-
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> > Do you notice any real speed differences?
> > I'm running a duel P3 866 box and have been toying with the idea of 
> > going
> > software raid for our main share. (four scsi 9.1GB on SCSI 160)
>
> I have not had any dealings with software raid so i can not answer 
> that question really.