IDE, SATA, RAID0, RAID4, and RAID5

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting markw at mohawksoft.com:

> (1) There was nothing on the drives to read.
> (2) Read is almost always faster than write and write is usually the least
> cached data transfer, so, to me at least, write would seem to be the most
> indicative of real performance.
>
> I really just wanted to confirm some basic assumptions and thought the
> results might be useful to people thinking similarly.

I'm more worried about stability of the RAID in the face of drive failure..

-derek
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