From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 9:17:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E17B37B84F for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA04427; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:29:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Don Szczepanik Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raid 0? In-Reply-To: <000f01bfe8d1$c0e671c0$53bc1cd0@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Don Szczepanik wrote: > I understand Raid 0 is for speed but how does it work? does it > requires 2 drives? > Don Szczepanik It spreads disc data across multiple drives. This increases the disc bandwidth much the same way that two lanes on a highway is better then one. Raid 0 needs more than one drive. Read the "ABCs of RAID" on adaptec.com for a good primer on RAID. Later, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message