[rescue] Ultra 2 upgrade question...

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
> " That is, to be fair, just a stripe, not RAID5.
> 
> apples and oranges.  striping - especially across controllers - is a
> great way to improve disk i/o.  raid5 requires the metadriver to
> calculate/analyze ecc sums on the fly every time there's an i/o.

Only on writes, neh?



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