> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 03:53:22PM -0600, Alex Howansky wrote: > > levels. Still, you'd think that even a "slow" RAID-5 configuration would be > > faster than a $98 IDE drive... > > I wouldn't. You'd be wrong. : ) I've also copied large amounts of data from an IDE drive to an old AMI MegaRAID controller with some old Quantum drives in a RAID 5 configuration. The RAID was still faster at writing than the relatively modern IDE drive could read. Not to mention that in an environment like a database server where you may have many processes accessing the disk at once, a SCSI RAID array makes IDE look like a toy. steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
