On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Roger Chrisman wrote:
> > fun stuff > > RAID 1 is one strategy for getting 'faster' read going. http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20000329/fastrak66-14.html "its" linearly faster for reading ... but also linearly slower for writing :-) "it" is the proper raid config ... if you only write once and read it back a gazillion times like google, than it'd make sense to use stripping > RAID 1 is a flavor where you take two disks of the same size and have the > computer treat them as one disk. stripping by itself does NOT allow you to read data 2x as faster sripping ( raid0 ) makes two 80GB look like one bigger 160GB disks ( if the data is only written once, you probably can't read all data ( 2x faster across 2 different disks .. mirroring ( raid1 ) plus stripping across 2 raid1 does allow you read 2x faster ... but you lose 1/2 of your disks to duplicate data ( "mirrors" ) what you'd want is raid01 or raid10 ( slightly different ) more fun stuff ( raid differences ) http://1u-raid5.net/Differences/ c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]