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Re: Hardware purchase question

Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle@gmail.com>

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From: Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-03T19:20:41Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:23:13 -0800, Joshua D. Drake
<jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> 
> RAID 10 will typically always outperform RAID 5 with the same HD config.

Isn't RAID10 just RAID5 mirrored?  How does that speed up performance?
 Or am I missing something?

-- Mitch