On Monday 17 August 2009, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
>> I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
>
>Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't
>fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives...

Its been my observation that software raids are slower. Not tremendously so 
though.  When Jim put together a raid-5 with 4 drives several years ago, the 
drives were about 70meg/sec drives, and the overall was just a hair over 
50meg/sec.  I know he has rebuilt it with bigger & faster drives 2 or 3 times 
since, along with more iron in the cpu, so I don't know its current speed.  
Being retired means being out of the loop. :(

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