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The performance benifits of raid0 are largely a myth. It was designed to greatly increase the speed of streaming i/o operations, like reading and writing large continuous segments of data for media editing.
Your computer mainly relies on random i/o operations. It can actuially be much slower for random i/o if the drives are not identical, and from most real-world benchmarks at best marginally faster.
Depending on your operating system I'd be tempted to just go 3+1p under ZFS or just keep 2 seperate raid1 volumes.
Originally Posted by wanderman /img/forum/go_quote.gif raid 10 anyone >.> |
The performance benifits of raid0 are largely a myth. It was designed to greatly increase the speed of streaming i/o operations, like reading and writing large continuous segments of data for media editing.
Your computer mainly relies on random i/o operations. It can actuially be much slower for random i/o if the drives are not identical, and from most real-world benchmarks at best marginally faster.
Depending on your operating system I'd be tempted to just go 3+1p under ZFS or just keep 2 seperate raid1 volumes.