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From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
Subject: Re: raid10 vs raid5 - strange performance
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:36:49 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:33:06PM +0100, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> I did a few tests of raid10 on an old 3ware 7506-8 today (using 6
> drives), both with the built-in raid 10 and md's n2 and chunk sizes
> from 64KB to 1024KB.
> - caches dropped before each test
> - averages of three runs
> - arrays in synced state
> - dd tests: 6GB (3MB bs)

What are the specifics for the raid10? Which layout? How many copies?

Best regards
keld