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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:05:58 -0500
From: Chad Morland <cmorland@gmail.com>
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Subject: RAID1, failed drive, performance?
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What happens in terms of performance when a drive in a RAID1 system
fails? Will disk access be slower because it attempts to read/write to
a failed disk or will performance be faster because it doesn't need to
do half the work it usually does?

-CM