Re: dell versus hp

[Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>]

On November 9, 2007, Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com> wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote:
> > You can't touch RAID 10 for performance or reliability. The only
> > reason to
> > use RAID 5 or RAID 6 is to get more capacity out of the same
> > drives.
>
> Maybe you can't, but I can.  I guess I have better toys than you :-)
>

OK, I'll bite. Name one RAID controller that gives better write 
performance in RAID 6 than it does in RAID 10, and post the benchmarks.

I'll grant a theoretical reliability edge to RAID 6 (although actual 
implementations are a lot more iffy), but not performance.

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