Speed SHR -vs- RAID5 or RAID6

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Speed SHR -vs- RAID5 or RAID6

Postby opentoe » Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:09 am

Anyone know the speed difference read/write between Synology's SHR and a RAID5/6 read/write?
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Re: Speed SHR -vs- RAID5 or RAID6

Postby danielp » Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:32 am

I believe read performance between RAID5 and RAID6 are near equal and write performance of RAID6 may be slightly lower than RAID5 due to a second parity block.

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