| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 8 Jun 2002 12:50:15 -0400 |
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:10:08AM -0400, kaze wrote: > Would separating some combination of swap/OS or OS/apps or apps/data result > in a better performance boost than software RAID? Depends on the the physical disk setup (access times, number of disks, but saturation), but probably. > Does any software RAID give you a speed increase (as hardware > RAID would) or is it only for fault tolerance? It's *possible* that software-based striping (just striping, no redundancy) might yield a speed increase, but I'm pretty sure that with any other type of RAID, the caculation of the check bit(s) will be enough overhead that any speed gain would be lost. Not that I've tested. Since I just don't use software RAID. :^> -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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