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From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
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* Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> [081209 11:28]:

> What do you suggest when there is not enough room for a RAID 10?

More disks ;-)

But if you've given up on performance and reliability in favour of
cheaper storage, I guess raid5 is ok.  But then I'm not sure what the
point of asking about it's poor performance is...

a.

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