On May 14, 2005, at 09:16, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

This is the way RAID1 works. Try to imagine how disk's heads are moving -
there will be no speed-up in sequential reads, this is not RAID0.


Mirror characteristics are:
- the same speed for sequential reads as for one disk;
- the same speed for sequential/random write as for one disk;
- double speed of one disk for random reads;

The following paper describes the I/O characteristics of various RAID schemes:


http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/chen89evaluation.html

The following two may also be of some interest:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/chen90maximizing.html
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/219910.html

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