Thanks to a generous donation of an IDE cable, my two drives are now hda and hdc. Interestingly, the speed tests with the drives on separate cables yield the same results (within experimental error) as the two drives on a single cable. This is only hdparm -t, real-world results may be different.
On 28/09/05, Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning on setting up software RAID 1 on a p3-600 at home. > At the moment, I have both HDD on the primary ide (hda and hdb). > Individually hdparm -t reports about 26MB/s, but running hdparm -t on both > disks > at the same time reports 13 MB/s. I suspect that putting one of the drives on > the secondary IDE will result in better overall performance, but I'm not sure. > Does anyone know? I would have tried it out myself, except I don't have any > spare IDE cables (they only need to be 40 wire ones). I did have a bunch > spare, > but gave them away a while back. So, will the performance boost be worth > getting > another IDE cable? The machine will be serving on a 100Mbit home LAN, so the > network might be the bottle-neck rather than the disk read/write spead. > > Cheers, > Carl. >
