Anyone running RAID 05 or 50?

[EnderW]

If so, post your specs and how you like your setup. Especially if you could compare it to RAID5 in terms of improvements in writing performance.

If you don't know what RAID 05 / 50 is:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/multLevel05.html

 

[tiebird321]

Raid 50 using 40 18gb 10k scsi u80 LVD drives atached to my RS/6000
4 raid 5 arrays are stripped together
reliable and works fine

I can constantly fill the bus to its max from the number of drives

This level of raid is really only for huge enterprise clusters
Though I have once seen a massive Raid 55 array that comprised 400drives
Idea behind it was that entire drive cages could die and the system would be able to keep chugging

 

[Order]

Jesus Christ.
Any chance you can run some benchmarks on that behemoth?