[mythtv-users] RAID 1 - friend or foe?
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Tue Mar 28 04:05:43 UTC 2006
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Would using two modern SCSI hard drives, hanging off an Adaptec
> controller, in a RAID-1 configuration, help or hinder video
> recording/playback, versus using a single disk only.
Hardware RAID one should incur no or very very little performance hit on
writes since data is written to both disks simultaneously and could
improve read performance by reading sectors from either disk as needed.
Kevin
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