On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:25:23PM +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
>hmm .. do i understand correctly that you're suggesting that using
>raid 10 and/or hardware raid adapter might hurt disc subsystem
>performance? could you elaborate on the reasons, please?
I think it's been fairly well beaten to death that the low-end hardware
raid adapters have lousy performance. It's not until you get into the
range of battery-backed disk caches with 512M+ and multiple I/O channels
that hardware raid becomes competitive with software raid.
Mike Stone