Re: NVMe disk protection

Rob Berendt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange
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> What's the message behind this? "Even if it's a bit slower, it's still
faster than anything they can dream of"?
Pretty much.

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 7:27 AM Patrik Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Rob,
>
> Am 25.05.2026 um 11:33 schrieb Rob Berendt <[email protected]>:
>
> > If I add one or two 800GB NVMe drives, ending up with 3 or 4, what RAID
> alternatives does that open up?
>
> Level 10: Mirrored drive pairs (1) with striping (0) on top. Or in other
> words, let SLIC do the scatter/gather (striping) thing as it has done since
> 1988, and mirroring "below" for protection.
>
> > Keep in mind that they are coming from spinning disks which absolutely
> crawl compared to SSDs let alone NVMe drives.
>
> What's the message behind this? "Even if it's a bit slower, it's still
> faster than anything they can dream of"?
>
> :wq! PoC
>
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