Good point about RAID0.

I know linux's implementation of RAID0 is with the MD program. Do you 
know if that's fully functional, and if so, is there a Debian package for 
it? How is it used?

On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote:

> Given equal drive parameters, the IO throughput (what matters for 
> multi-tasking OSs) for a SCSI-2 system should be better than EIDE. Where SCSI 
> really begins to shine in IO throughput is using disk block striping (RAID 0) 
> using two or more SCSI disks. You can place 7 disks on a single SCSI bus and 
> come no where near saturating the SCSI bus bandwidth with the random IOs that 
> Linux generates. If one SCSI drive gives you 60 IOs/sec of throughput, seven 
> of those drives gives you 420 IOs/sec of throughput. I only wish it was that 
> easy to increase my CPU performance!
> 
> Al Youngwerth
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

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