>?On Monday 09 January 2006 14:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: >> >All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful >> > if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a >> > 300GB partition. >> >> Not exactly. A true RAID 0 (or a striped set) alternates writing each block >> from one disk to the other. This increases performance because 2 chunks >> of data can be written at the same time - one chunk to disk 1, one chunk to >> disk2, etc. >> >> Joining partitions together, or extending a volume, is not RAID 0. This >> does not necessarily increase performance, because data typically won't be >> written to the second disk until the first is full. >> >> In both scenarios, your useable space equals all your disks combined, but >> only the striped set improves performance. >> > >So what will mdadm do? What is my best option for using 2 drives to get the >most speed out of them as a combined drive?
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