RAID And You (A Guide To RAID-0/1/5/6/xx)

[Serra]

And props to Stevecs - anyone who hasn't read his posts in here really should. He forwarded me this stuff earlier and I've been just terrible in terms of lack of response, but it really does need to be here. Every time I look at the e-mails he's sent me I start looking for a hosting solution for some of the documents, and eventually get derailed and forget about it. But I swear, someday I'll get to it.

[Polizei]

And props to Stevecs - anyone who hasn't read his posts in here really should. He forwarded me this stuff earlier and I've been just terrible in terms of lack of response, but it really does need to be here. Every time I look at the e-mails he's sent me I start looking for a hosting solution for some of the documents, and eventually get derailed and forget about it. But I swear, someday I'll get to it.

Very patient guy who really knows his stuff. Emphasis on really. Great asset to the forums.

Walked me through using a RAID benchmarking program called IOZone. Im sure I stretched his patience to the limit with the stupid questions... after I got the answer, I always thought to myself, "Duh." In any event, HDTach and HDTune cant hold a candle to what IOZone can tell you about a RAID array. The only thing that IOZone doesnt tell you is access times and averages. Who needs em when IOZone outputs such comprehensive information? No one.

Ive told myself I would write a walk-through for IOZone, but college consumes all my time and I never get around to it.