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RAID offload to multi-core x86 CPUs

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question to the Storage Advisors: I have a question regarding RAID. With dual processor CPUs now common (e.g., Pentium D) wouldn’t a 4-drive RAID-5 array be faster than a 4-drive RAID-10 array? I would think the second core would (could?) be dedicated to parity calculations…

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