[ILUG] Dell PERCs and Linux

[David Murphy]

Quoting <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006180230370.5791-100000 at fogarty.jakma.org>
by Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie>:

> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Paul Kelly wrote:
> 
> > A clear, if slight, win for RAID 5.
> > 
> 
> what does the dmesg say about the RAID5 speed. probably RAID5 is
> /very/ cpu limited here.
> 
> but at least we have the numbers now.. perhaps now David /might/
> admit that RAID5 {isn't slow, is faster than RAID1}. but thread is
> thankfully dead.. :)

IIRC Paul compared 3-disk RAID5 to a single partition...

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