-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Matthew J. Brodeur hath spake thusly: > > My /home partition is RAID 0 (no redundancy, but bigger and faster) > > instead of RAID 1 (redundancy, smaller, somewhat faster read than raw > > disk). > > Not to start an argument, but isn't RAID 1 actually slower than single > disk access? It would seem that writing to two drives would take longer > than writing one, especially with IDE.
Typically writing is slower, for the reasons you state; but reading is faster, because you can read different blocks from different drives simultaneously. Note he did say faster read... - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rez/djdlQoHP510RAupXAJ9YDCunNCyhAwOQ4Cs+VqZ2493QOQCcC944 CMnjcz3PMQ7q3sGNlS36P84= =3O1r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
