Jim, On 1/30/06 12:25 PM, "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why divide by 2? A good raid controller should be able to send read > requests to both drives out of the mirrored set to fully utilize the > bandwidth. Of course, that probably won't come into play unless the OS > decides that it's going to read-ahead fairly large chunks of the table > at a time... I've not seen one that does, nor would it work in the general case IMO. In RAID1 writes are duplicated and reads come from one of the copies. You could alternate read service requests to minimize rotational latency, but you can't improve bandwidth. - Luke
