From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
Subject: Re: RAID-5 streaming read performance
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:13:44 -0400
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raid5 can not be that smart. :P

ming

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:16 -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
> bus/controller.  For example, RAID-5 could just do sequential
> reads from 3 of the 4 drives, and use the parity chunks it
> reads to reconstruct the data chunks from the fourth drive.
> If I do parallel reads from 3 of my 4 disks, I can still get
> 106MB/s.
>