Re: Software RAID-0 striping over Hardware RAID-5

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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 20:27, Scott T. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 17:23, Tim Moore wrote:
> > >>From what I have read, RAID0 will just go as fast as your slowest disk.
> > 
> > Almost 2X faster.
> 
> writes will be as fast as the slowest disk; reads will be faster.

Eh?  I think the more correct way to phrase RAID0 characteristics over
*any* selection of disks is that the minimum theoretical speed for the
overall array when it comes to sequential reads *and* writes is
n*speed_slowest_disk, where n is the number of drives in the array.

> 	Scott
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