Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:48:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Cc: "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" <rafareta@icave.com.mx>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RAID 1 Message-ID: <20000709104848.C13892@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000708134704.4431D-100000@utah> References: <39675E01.794CC5BE@icave.com.mx> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000708134704.4431D-100000@utah>
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On Saturday, 8 July 2000 at 13:48:22 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez wrote: > >> Is it possible to make a disk mirroring with IDE HD? > > RAID does not depend on the type of disc. Note, however, that performance does. You shouldn't use more than one disk per IDE controller if you want reasonable performance. >> Is it performance convenient? > > No. Mirroring is slow but reliable. Writing is fractionally slower. Reading is faster. Check out http://www.lemis.com/vinum/Performance-issues.html for further details. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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