On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:09:03PM -0200, Roberto Spadim wrote: > ok, but you are wrong... > > well, raid0 is for reading sequentially, about double as fast as raid1. > > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Performance > > it?s true for a mix of write/read (write is the time of slowest drive) > > but if you just read, raid0 and raid1 have the same read time (depend > on implementation, but can have the same speed) For sequential reading, this is not true. For random reading and writing I agree with you in theory, but benchmarks show that it is not so, at least for Linux RAID, viz the above URL. Have you got benchmarks to shed some light on this? best regards keld -- 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