From what I have read, RAID0 will just go as fast as your slowest disk.
Almost 2X faster.
[16:52] abit: > cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid0 sdb5[1] sda5[0] 4192768 blocks 32k chunks
md1 : active raid0 sdb6[1] sda6[0] 2425600 blocks 32k chunks
md2 : active raid0 sdb7[1] sda7[0] 12707200 blocks 16k chunks
md3 : active raid0 sdb8[1] sda8[0] 20113152 blocks 64k chunks
unused devices: <none>
102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out : 10.72 19% 0:10.72 s 2.12 u 0.02 mapf 112 mipf 12 : dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/dev/null bs=4k count=100k 102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out : 11.33 19% 0:11.33 s 2.18 u 0.06 mapf 112 mipf 12 : dd if=/dev/sdb5 of=/dev/null bs=4k count=100k 102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out : 5.81 32% 0:05.81 s 1.81 u 0.07 mapf 112 mipf 12 : dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=4k count=100k
[17:20] abit:~ > echo "scale=2;102400*4*1024;((10.72+11.33)/2)/5.81" | bc -q 419430400 1.89 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html