[TriLUG] Setting Up RAID-5

[Lee Fickenscher]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Brian Henning wrote:

> Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>> Brian Henning wrote:
>>> Lee Fickenscher wrote:
>>>> If uptime and performance aren't really a concern, why even  
>>>> bother with raid?
>>>
>>> Two reasons:
>>> 1) Throughput, particularly on read.  Striping across several  
>>> disks means I can move more than one drive's max data rate at  
>>> once (right?).
>> Uhhhmmm...isn't that "performance"?
>
> I'd say it is; I never said performance wasn't a concern.  In fact,  
> I said throughput was my #1 concern, followed by data safety, and  
> that only uptime wasn't so much a concern.  (I did say /write/  
> performance wasn't as much of a concern, which may be where Mr.  
> Fickenscher misinterpreted me).
>
Heh heh, please don't call me "Mr." (thats my dad) :)
You said that work would be done on a separate workstation. While I'm  
not inclined to closely examine the numbers, are you sure that disk  
throughput is going to be that much of an issue if you are piping  
this stuff over your network (or local bus contention for that matter)?
Bragging rights or "just because I want to" are fine excuses in my  
book though :D