[H-GEN] Disk transfer speeds

[Kris Amy]

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> The RAID5
> setup should be reading 5 disks simultaneously, one of which is parity
> data and "wasted".  I would have thought in this case that I should get
> a much higher sustained rate.
>
> Maybe I'm missing the point somewhere ?

Isn't raid 5 striping with parity split ? raid 4 is where the parity is on
one disk.

Kris


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