<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But the parity is distributed across all drives for both RAID5 and<br>RAID6. So if you're reading more than one block RAID6 can be faster.
<br>For instance, if you are reading 6 blocks, with RAID 6 they may all be<br>on different drives and so able to be read simultaneously. With RAID 5<br>at least one drive must hold two of the blocks.</blockquote><div> <br>
<br>Ok, I agree with that and see your point. Thanks for teh explanation.<br></div></div><br>I guess one more reason for me to keep using raid6. I actually have > 7TB at work on software raid6 using lots of 320 GB Seagate
7200.10 sata2 disks and 250 GB WDC sata1 disks... <br><br><br>John