All software RAID costs processor cycles at a minimum, so it's not unreasonable to expect some effect on performance, noticeable or not. Production servers should have hardware RAID.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Holstrom, Don J. Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:22 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Speed loss with mirroring? Is there a marked loss of speed in delivering the e-mail to internal clients (Outlook 03) with using Server 03's software disk mirroring on an Exchange 03 server? I have been doing just that on a new server and I think I sense a slowness. It's a good fast Xeon dual processor server with 4 gigs of RAM. Should I de-couple the mirror? I don't know that in reality it offers me that much security. If one HD goes nuts, they both would be nuts, right? And if I de-couple, I suppose I could store logs on the second HD, which I think I read is the way to help throughput. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
