Re: io performance...

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Ian Soboroff <isoboroff@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> simulation) and database accesses.  These are random accesses, which
> is the worst access pattern for RAID.  Seek time in a RAID equals the
> longest of all the drives in the RAID, rather than the average.

Well, actually it equals to the shortest seek time and it distributes the
seeks to multiple spindles (at least for raid1).

Gruss
Bernd
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