RAID5 on athlon64 machines

[David Taylor]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, soralx at cydem.org wrote:
[missing attribution]
> >
> > You compute max data rates by considering the most optimistic
> > scenario, which is large sequetial writes.  For *this*
> > situation write rate will be higher than a single disk's.
> 
> How can the RAID5 write rate be higher for the whole array if not
> only it needs to write the data to all if its drives, but also
> compute and write a parity block?

Easy, you can write simultaneously to more than one drive, assuming
the drive was the bottleneck in the first place.

-- 
David Taylor