From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org list" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Usefulness of RAID 4
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:41:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5123FF85.50105@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5F9E1BC-26C0-4585-9DD5-0C19570FBA17@colorremedies.com>
On 2/18/2013 9:01 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Assuming HDD only, is there broad use case for RAID 4 that RAID 5 isn't equally or better suited for?
>
> What about making the parity drive an SSD, keeping the other drives HDD?
Why are you revisiting RAID-4? It's dead tech, decades ago. It has no
advantages over subsequent RAID levels, yet significant handicap.
--
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-19 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-19 3:01 Usefulness of RAID 4 Chris Murphy
2013-02-19 22:41 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2013-02-19 22:46 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19 22:58 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-02-19 23:07 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-20 7:56 ` David Brown
2013-02-20 19:24 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-20 18:15 ` Stan Hoeppner
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