On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:14:46PM -0500, Chad Morland wrote: > What happens in terms of performance when a drive in a RAID1 system > fails? Will disk access be slower because it attempts to read/write to > a failed disk or will performance be faster because it doesn't need to > do half the work it usually does? I couldn't really find any online > resources that deal with performance levels when there are failed > drives present in a RAID array. > I recently set-up and tested a geom-based RAID1. When I pulled a hot-swap SATA drive from the server, I didn't notice any performance degradation. However, I must note that I wasn't running any monitoring software nor gathering empirical data. It's just my observation of the responsiveness of the system while one drive was gone. YMMV.
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