On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:30:17 -0500 Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote: Florian wrote: > > writing 5megs to the one disk and 5meg to the other will complete the > > operation in 1s. Performance increase. For this performance increase one > > pays the price of less redundancy though (instead of the chance of one > > disk failing you got the chance of each one of both disks failing > > combined). > > Ah, you're right, I did forget about this type of RAID. As my son > would say, "My bad." > > This is rarely seen in the wild for the very reasons you note: no > redundancy and a higher chance of getting burned by disk failure. As pointed out, RAID 5 does the distribution and has redundancy, but there is still a bit of overhead involved when compared to one disk. My opinion is still that it doesn't pay to run a RAID in a DAW, but that it always pays to have backups! -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@brainiac.com Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa _______________________________________________ ardour-users-ardour.org mailing list ardour-users@lists.ardour.org http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-users-ardour.orgReceived on Wed Dec 15 13:51:00 2004
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