At 2003-03-10T16:39:36Z, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes: > Hmmm. By definition, RAID1 is "mirroring". Correct. > Never heard of putting any more than 2 disks in a mirrorset. Mirroring can have a nice boost for read access. I'd imagine that such a setup would be useful for something like ftp.cdrom.com, where many simultaneous read requests (but almost no write requests) are being answered. > Never even thought of it, actually. With more than 2 disks, I'd > automatically go with RAID5. I guess it depends on your needs. Given the money for such a setup, RAID1+0 (or RAID10, whatever you want to call it) would be faster and possibly more robust; as long as at least one drive from each stripe survives, the whole filesystem is still available. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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