[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Thu Feb 2 09:50:19 UTC 2006


Nix wrote:

>Of course if you're doing small piecemeal writes then there'll be a lot
>of extra reads to compute parity across all stripes... but small
>piecemeal writes are a fairly uncommon thing.
>  
>

Apart from mail servers, database servers, web caching servers, log 
servers etc etc, yes, they're fairly uncommon :)
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