Mirroring disks

[decordovaf]

Hi.
I have a Xserver g5 with 2 disks of 250Gbyte each one.
I would like to mirroring these disks because the will storage important data of the company.
Will I have low perfomance if I do this , or the perfomance just decrease a little ?

thanks in advance!

[Ross]

You won’t notice unless you’re using the servers for direct video rendering (which your prob are not).

[Ross]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u]

Actually it will get a bit faster. AppleRAID 2 will stripe the reads coming off a mirror when it can.

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I have always been told RAID 1 can’t increase write speed, If the two disks are the same (spindles and drive heads can be sychronized) you’ll get a single disk’s write speed. So your saying AppleRAID2 will split the reads/writes between two drives, with a mirror? I was thinking any performance hit would be the CPU since its a software raid and not much at that.

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