On Monday 17 May 2004 12:07, Optimized wrote: > Hello, > > I have four (4) HDD in my box : > > RAID 0 (on Intel IHC5-R) > Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10000rpm SATA > Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10000rpm SATA > > RAID 0 (on Promise FastTrak 378) > Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB 7200rpm SATA > Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB 7200rpm SATA > > I would like to create a RAID 0+1 from this config but I wonder if I'm > about to loose on performances doing the RAID 1 between the two (2) RAID 0 > volumes since the first volume has 10000rpm HDD and the second one has > 7200rpm HDD. > > What do you think? You'll have 74GB of RAID0+1 storage which will be as fast as 4x7200rpm HDD RAID0+1. I'd recommend changing either pair of hdd's to match the other. Which pair to swap depends on your needs - either space or performance. -- Martin Lillepuu | e-mail: martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx | gsm: +372 515 6450
