Re: RAID 5+0 support

[Martin Drab]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Phillip Susi wrote:

> Why on earth would you want to stripe two raid-5's instead of using one raid-5
> that is twice as big?  You'd get more usable disk space that way. 

Speed is the issue here, I believe. By stripping two RAID-5 arrays you 
ought to get the reliability of the RAID-5 but with considerably higher 
speed. That's basically why RAID-50 exists, I think.

Martin
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