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QuietFreek   12-04-2006 at 02:01:17 PM

I was wondering about the performance of a raid 1 mirrored array if the drives have different performance, specificly if I had an I-Ram (or similar) and mirrored it with a 5k rpm laptop drive (for silence). Would this provide the speed of the I-Ram with the data security of having a backup on non volatile media or would the whole lot run at the laptop hdd speed

Chears.

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SomeJoe7777   12-04-2006 at 04:33:37 PM
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Unfortunately, no.

Hardware RAID-1 will run at the speed of the slowest drive.

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BearCub   12-04-2006 at 08:30:29 PM
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same with RAID0

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