On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Please be aware that RAID-5 is best suited for read-only and read-mostly
> volumes.  RAID-5 is not well-suited for write-mostly volumes, although your
> expected transaction rates seem to be low enough that you ought to be OK.

Actually, the Escalade controllers do a pretty good job of caching and
writing in bulk, if you're writing sequentially and fast enough.

cjs
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