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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:22:06 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Chad Morland <cmorland@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance
Message-ID:  <41F9779E.9030403@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <8ca9329050127121428870c21@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <8ca9329050127121428870c21@mail.gmail.com>

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Chad Morland wrote:
> 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?

Read access will become slower.  Write access will become faster.

-- 
-Chuck




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