User talk:Oscarg

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Copyright problems

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Nested RAID levels

Oscar, I saw your recent edit to Nested RAID levels and noticed that there was a lot of wording you took out and then replaced with an unsourced (or unexplained) claim.
If you don't mind, I'm going to revert your edit for now, and if you want we can discuss the change you want to make, and see if we can come to a good conclusion.
We can discuss it either here or on the talk page for the article – doesn't matter to me.
-Garrett W. {☎ ✍} 03:18, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Garrettw87.

Thanks for your efforts - much appreciated - people like you make Wikipedia great (sorry for the cliche).

I Believe you were correct to revert the entry.

It is making me research this issue correctly as I should have in the first place :)

I know the part I replaced was factually incorrect in both its premise and conclusion, and was unsourced. I guess my initial entry was a "shoot from the hip response" to that. I intend to make my next one correct, succinct and sourced...

Here is where I am at...

RAID 10 standard will in most cases outperform RAID 5 (and all other RAID levels other than 0), and will at least equal it otherwise (assuming same number of drives etc)

Here are some benchmarks which confirm that.

• A comparison of RAID levels at Storage Review
• An independant Comparison of HP and IBM RAID controllers
• A comprehensive RAID performance report at ZDNet
• Description of RAID 10 at Intel
• An indepth analysis of planning RAID for Exchange 2007

Enhanced RAID 10 allowing simultaneous requests

The technology which I spoke of, which enables simultaneous reads, and in some cases read/writes only for RAID 10 was explained to me a few years ago for Windows Server 2003 machine on HP hardware. I assumed it was available, at least on high end RAID controllers. I will leave that out until I find some evidence for it.

I will wait for your response before I make the change.

BTW How many sources do you think is appropriate? 1? 3? 5?

I am attempting to find the most authoritative sources - i.e. commercial reports for commercial devices, rather than bloggers reviewing their motherboard controllers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oscarg (talk • contribs) 10:01, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Alright, that's more like it! I appreciate your willingness to communicate and your desire to be of help to the 'pedia.

I understand your original edits now. Also as far as how many sources are appropriate, I think WP:CITEKILL has a good rule of thumb: no more than about 3. Pick the one(s) you feel are the most reliable or that back up your edit the strongest.
-Garrett W. {☎ ✍} 20:00, 13 December 2009 (UTC)