Re: raid0 slower than devices it is assembled of?

From: Andre Hedrick
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 15:58:49 EST



Helge,

Reads you may gain on writes only if all devices are on single ended mode.
Both pATA and pSCSI suck wind in writes, pSCSI should smoke pATA on reads.
It is all a matter of the physical protocol on the wire.

Only in SATA/SAS will you even reach close to ideal world.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Helge Hafting wrote:

> jw schultz wrote:
>
> > No Linux [R]AID improves sequential performance. How would
> > reading 65KB from two disks in alternation be faster than
> > reading continuously from one disk?
> >
> Raid-0 is ideally N times faster than a single disk, when
> you have N disks. Because you can read continuously from N
> disks instead of from 1, thereby N-doubling the bandwith.
>
> Wether the current drivers manages that is of course another story.
>
> Helge Hafting
>
>
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