| Rich Freeman on 21 Aug 2016 14:51:47 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] RAID6 or RAID5+HS? |
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Rich Mingin (PLUG) <plug@frags.us> wrote: > If close together failures are a concern as you say at the end, RAID6 *is* > RAID5+hot spare minus rebuild time. The extra I/O is largely offset by the > extra disk sharing the load. > Unless you have data going over some kind of shared pipe dividing the bandwidth I'd think that the IO for striped raid would be the same. Since the drives are all sychronized it should take the same amount of time to seek 4 drives as 5, or to upload 1GB of data to 4 drives as 1.25GB of data to 5. Maybe there is more CPU load, but that seems unlikely to be the bottleneck. I'd be interested in real-world differences between raid5/6. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug