Roberto Spadim put forth on 2/2/2011 2:28 PM: > i don´t think, since head, is just for hard disk (rotational) not for > solid state disks, let´s not talk about ssd, just hard disk? a raid > with 5000rpm and 10000rpm disk, we will have better i/o read with Anyone who would mix drives of such disparate spindle speeds within the same array is not concerned with performance. Anyone who has read enough to create their first array knows better than to do this. Why waste effort to optimize such a horrible design decision? > 10000rpm ? we don´t know the model of i/o for that device, but > probally will be faster, but when it´s busy we could use 5000rpm... > that´s the point, just closest head don´t help, we need know what´s > the queue (list of i/o being processed) and the time to read the > current i/o This is just silly. -- Stan -- 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