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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:26:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote:
> Okey, but if you would compare RAID-1 on two disks compared to RAID-5 on
> three disks then ? What would be the faster ?

RAID1 is going to be faster, both reading and writing, but it will
take a lot more raw disk space to provide the required usable space.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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