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Re:S3 scales to petabytes a second on top of slow HDDs by zeroimpl on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:58AM (#45372176)
RAID doesn’t exactly make writes faster, it can actually be slower. Depends on if you are using RAID for mirroring or sharding. When you mirror, writes are slower since you have to write to all disks.
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Re:S3 scales to petabytes a second on top of slow HDDs by alfons_foobar on Thursday September 25, 2025 @12:44PM (#45375203)
He explicitly mentioned RAID0 though :)
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