Re: Disk I/O slowness

Michael Stone [2026-07-31 10:57:08] wrote:
> As others have suggested, a small array on consumer hardware is much
> more useful as a raid 1 than a raid 5.

I'd even say that raid 5/6 is very rarely the better choice.  In a sense
it's mostly of academic interest; in practice it's almost always
preferable to stick with raid 0/1/10.  In theory raid 5/6 can be a few
percent cheaper in some cases, but it's rarely a good tradeoff.
So unless you really know what you're doing I'd recommend to stay away
from raid 5/6.


=== Stefan