Re: Manipulate Large Binary Files

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:36:02PM -0400, Derek Tracy wrote:
I am running it on a RAID(stiped raid 5 using fibre channel), but I
was expecting better performance.

Don't forget that you're reading from and writing to the same
spindles. Writes are slower on RAID 5, and you have to read the data
before you can write it...

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