RE: RAID 5 performance problems

Jonathan Vardy (jonathan@explainerdc.com)
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:05:56 +0200


> From: Ezra Nugroho [mailto:ezran@goshen.edu]

> Your hdc is still running at udma(33). This is also part of the raid,
> right? This will slow the whole thing down since in raid 5
> write is done
> to all disks simultaneously. Before the system finishes writing to the
> slow drive, the write is not done yet.

> Your hdc is still running at udma(33). This is also part of the raid,
> right? This will slow the whole thing down since in raid 5
> write is done
> to all disks simultaneously. Before the system finishes writing to the
> slow drive, the write is not done yet.

This should not cripple the performance to what I get. My friend had
6x80GB 5400rpm drives with two of those on udma33 and four on udma66 and
he managed 80MB/sec (dual 500Mhz)

Jonathan
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