[CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:48 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote:
> It's the array's way of saying it's not really safe to operate a
> 14 disk RAID-4 group in the event of a drive failure. Also performance will
> suffer greatly with such a large data:parity drive ratio.
>
> NetApp RAID DP (what you have):
> http://www.netapp.com/us/library/white-papers/wp_3298.html

> Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 -
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162

Thanks so much everyone for the comments and insight.
This is absolutely giving me very valuable new understanding on RAID.
I've just got to say this is another proof that Centos mailing list is
one of the most highly trusted list I've ever known.
Salut!