Re: Why RAID1 half-speed?

[Andy Poling]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Mike Black wrote:
> I just set up a mirror this weekend on an IDE RAID1 - two 5G disks on the
> same IDE bus (primary and master).
> 
> I was under the impression that I shouldn't see any slowdown and maybe even
> a speedup but, alas, it is not so.

If you're at all concerned about speed, you should not be putting both disks
on the same IDE controller.

-Andy