[Gllug] [OT] RAID controllers and hard disk speeds

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> It's not optimal.  The faster drives will be slowed down to the speed
> of the slowest.  In other words, the fast drives will be waiting
> around for the slower ones.  You will get no speed increase from the
> faster drive.
> 
> There are many people who say that you should stick with identical
> drives.

This is very good advise. Do remember that some RAID controllers will barf 
on non-identical disks in horrible ways.

If you are going to the trouble and expense of hardware RAID (and I very 
much recommend it for any data that is important to you) go for the 
optimal setup.

Jason Clifford
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