[ale] Which gives better performance raid 0 or 1 ?

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Sat Feb 23 23:22:54 EST 2008


Jeb Barger wrote:
> I am working on a Debian server trying to get the most performance out
> of it, Performance wise, which is better raid 0 or raid 1 ?
>

Hi Jeb,

Performance for what kind of workload? How many disks are there, and 
what are they connected to? The answer is probably RAID0, but I doubt 
you really want it.

Take a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

For more detail dive into

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10

-Brian


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