From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 10:11: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.akalink.com (akalink.com [64.23.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C370037B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfortin@akalink.com) Received: (qmail 48941 invoked from network); 7 May 2001 17:08:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO node00) (64.23.81.14) by akalink.com with SMTP; 7 May 2001 17:08:43 -0000 Message-ID: <007501c0d718$61d4d920$020a10ac@node00> Reply-To: "Jonathan Fortin" From: "Jonathan Fortin" To: Subject: Raid (BEST PERFORMANCE) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:08:48 -0400 Organization: Akalink Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Best Performance Raid is a raid 0+1 setup. For example, you got 4 20gb harddrives. You create 2 strips of 2hds eachs, and you mirror them. It will have redundancy and the speed will be as fast as a normal disk. It's basically a Raid-1 setup with 2 hard drives per strip instead of one to counter write performance hits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message