Re: Running slower after raid0
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 18:53 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
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> > How is that? The RAID1 on my system read at nearly 2x the speed of a
> > single drive.
>
> raid1 is mrirror .. same data on both disks ... so you should expect
> to read 2x faster
>
> raid0 is stripping ... just making two 40GB disks looking like one bigger
> 80GB disk ... you will NOT get any performance benefits from raid0
Sure you will. If you are dealing with large bits of data,
writing to it will be N times faster because the computer writes
chunks of data to the disks in parallel.
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