IDE, SATA, RAID0, RAID4, and RAID5

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> On 2/6/07, markw at mohawksoft.com <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:
>> I am lucky enough to have a three mechanically identical drives, one
>> PATA
>> (EIDE) and two with SATA and took the time to make a few tests:
>
> Cool test!  Where's the read performance benchmarks??? ;-P

I didn't, in fact, do read performance. I didn't think it necessary for a
couple reasons:

(1) There was nothing on the drives to read.
(2) Read is almost always faster than write and write is usually the least
cached data transfer, so, to me at least, write would seem to be the most
indicative of real performance.

I really just wanted to confirm some basic assumptions and thought the
results might be useful to people thinking similarly.

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