" a practice called "short-stroking". The outside edge will read and write at around double the speed of the inner-most edge, so if you only use the outer half of the drives (which represents around 2/3 of the capacity) , you can increase the average performance of each drive by about 20%-25%."
You are correct ... The UNIX world has been doing this for years ... in AIX UNIX I can directly map a portion of the drive to the outer, middle, or inner spaces on the disk. " RAID 50, though I'm pretty sure that it should perform better in optimal condition and 8-10+ drives than RAID 0+1 unless you are hitting the limits of the RAID card's processor." RAID 0+1 has shown me over the years to have a very low hit on the RAID card's processor and a better usage of the RAID card's RAM vs. other RAID levels. As such I've always stayed with RAID 1 or RAID 1+0 on all my servers. Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
