Chris Mellor from the Register noticed a post on Sun’s blog about Triple Parity RAID (RAID-TP) being added to ZFS. This is a rather logical extension of the current RAID-5 (single parity) and RAID-6 (dual parity, also known as RAID-DP) schemes, and the Sun engineer that wrote the blog post says the performance should be nearly identical to RAID-DP as far as the necessary parity calculations are involved. Continue reading Does the world need Triple Parity RAID?
