On Monday 12 February 2007 00:34, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > One guy that I happen to know, who was responsible for the database > backend servers of Germany's biggest web mail provider at the time, > ran extensive benchmarks. Result: for RAID 1, RAID 0 and RAID 1+0 > there is no difference in "hardware RAID" vs. OS mirroring and > striping. He used Linux, but I'd bet a huge amount that his > findings can be transferred to arbitrary current operating systems.
Software RAID won't help you if your primary disk gets an error in, say, the second stage loader. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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