> The overall RAID speed will be limited to the slowest drive. There is some No. On a RAID 1 array read speed is armwavingly the sum of the performance of both drive - actual numbers are a bit more complex because you now effectively have two disk heads on non SSD media cases. > buffering, and the system is not going to be allocating 100% of the CPU to > disk I/O, all the time. But, your max disk read/write throughput will, of > course, be limited to the slowest drive Not always true either but a reasonable approximation for RAID 1. 1 + 0 four disk arrays can give a best of both worlds result in some cases. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
