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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:22:06 -0500
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: RAID1, a failed disk and performance
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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