On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:49 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> It is my experience that RAID 5 is not that great for heavy write
> situations and that RAID 10 is better.
>
It is my experience that this depends entirely on how many spindles you
have in your RAID. For 4 or 5 spindles, I find RAID10 faster. With 14
spindles, it was more or less a toss-up for me.