[nmglug] More RAID Questions

Karl Hegbloom karlheg at laclinux.com
Wed Feb 23 15:36:52 PST 2005


Tim Emerick wrote:
> 
> 2. I thought I read somewhere that you should only use Drive0 on each
> controller when using with RAID or you will get horrible performance.  Does
> that hold water?

IIRC, when one drive on the same IDE port is in use, the other is locked 
out until it's finished.  So for best performance, you want only one 
drive per mainboard IDE port.




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