Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:24:28 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, C S Hendrix wrote:

> > RAID-1 is disk mirror. DPT is cache with RAID. RAID will increase the
> > disk performance.
>
> Not when doing RAID1 it won't. You are doing a mirror. You'll be
> lucky if it's even as fast as non-RAID.

All okay raid-1 implimentations stripe reads, thus doubling your read
performance.

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