Originally posted by: techfuzz
RAID 1 - Write performance can decrease compared to a single drive because the data must be written twice and confirmed, thus the slowest link is the slowest drive to write the data.
- Read performance can increase compared to a single drive because the data can be read from whichever drive can access it and return it the fastest.
Now if I'm using 2x Raptors as my boot drive (w/ RAID 1) which are typically used in my computers for booting and loading of programs, not the writing of data, I would expect that my boot time would be less than someone using a single Raptor. The only way we're going to solve this is with some true imperical data, ie. benchmarks, to prove who's right or wrong. Unfortunately since I'm currently paying off my last vacation and saving to buy an engagement ring it isn't going to me who does the benchmarking. I did a little searching tonight, but I couldn't come up with anything that compares boot times and RAID levels.
Cheers,
techfuzz