On 2003-10-27T09:27:32,
Hermann Himmelbauer <dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at> said:
> When reading a file from the RAID1, you could e.g. read the first block from
> the first disk, the second from the second disk, the third from the first
> disk and so on.
>
> This would *theoretically* double the read speed - like with RAID0.
For pure reads, that may be true. But for writes, the disks have to
resynchronize their heads and then you would get a penalty there.
It all depends ;-)
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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