From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 18:19:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F10F37BCE8 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 18:19:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA14031; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:48:49 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:48:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: "Rafael A. Reta Rodriguez" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: RAID 1 Message-ID: <20000709104848.C13892@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39675E01.794CC5BE@icave.com.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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