On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:07, Gordon Findlay wrote: > it has been suggested to me that I configure a server to use software > RAID 1, with two IDE drives, to provide a measure of redundancy. I'm > dubious. > > Does anyone have any experience with this sort of arrangement: > specifically with the RAID performance and the impact on the server? > > Yes, this is an attempt to d othings on the cheap :-)
We just set a server exactly as you describe yesterday, and it performs extremely well, no performance problems at all. In fact the data transfer rate onto a single drive was pretty much identical to the data rate writing to the RAID. Regards, Richard Waid Network/Software Engineer http://iopen.co.nz
