On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 18:53 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots." Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
