Thanks to you all for the guidance I am suprised to find that having a CDROM on one of the Secondaries is a performance hit? Should I just remove it after Installation? Thanks again for the input. Johnn >From: Dave Ihnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: RAID1,Both IDE Hard Drives be on same Controller? >Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:39:54 -0600 > >On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:26:12PM -0000, John Kennedy wrote: > > I am building a web server using RAID-1, and I am > > concerned about where I should place my 20 gig IDE > > hard drives. > > > > Can they be on the same IDE controller? > >Can be. Shouldn't be. > > > Or should they each be on different controllers? > >Yes. First, by doing so you've introduced redundancy in the presence of >the >second controller. Secondly, most IDE controllers take a performance hit >between the master and slave (primary/secondary, whatever)--masters on two >controllers will generally perform better than a master/slave on one. > > > Will I take a performance hit one way or the other? > >Yes, probably; see above. Also avoid things like dropping a CD-ROM drive >on a controller's now-unused secondary. > >Cheers, >-- > Dave Ihnat > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
