Re: Hard drive read speeds

From: Steven Kurylo <sk_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Mon Feb 26 2007 - 22:09:57 CST

On 2/26/07, Les Klassen Hamm <les@bitlink.ca> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Can someone point me to some good info on hard drive reading speeds?
> More specifically, if software needs to do a great deal of reading from
> lots of different files, how would a pair of 7200rpm drives in RAID 0
> compare to one 10K rpm drive?

I'm going to assuming you meant raid 1. As well relatively small random seeks.

I would say any given single transaction will be faster on the single
drive. However multiple transactions will be faster on the raid 1
because the linux kernel can balance the requests across the drives.

Of course it would be interesting to test.
Received on Mon Feb 26 22:10:08 2007

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