On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 at 10:24am, Steve Bergman wrote > Does anyone have any bonnie++ results for Linux software RAID 5? I know > software RAID 5 does not really lend itself to a performant software > implementation, but the results would be interesting to see, none the > less. Actually, md is a *very* good performer (although I don't have any benchmarks on hand at the moment). The reason I stick with hardware RAID is that md doesn't handle hot swapping all that well. Not taking systems down to replace bad disks is a Good Thing. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University