>>>>> "Dean" == Dean Hamstead <[email protected]> writes:
Dean> Regardless of the method used, with two drives you either get Dean> speed or reliability, you dont get both. Dean> You either mirror (reliability) or stripe (speed). Actually, mirroring should improve speed for reads, because you can read from the discs in parallel at different locations. Write speed will be slower though. This assumes decent controllers and tagged scsi queueing, though. Mind you for a high performance system I'd be wanting to use more and smaller faster drivers. -- Dr Peter Chubb peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia All things shall perish from under the sky/Music alone shall live, never to die -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
