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SubjectRe: raid0 slower than devices it is assembled of?
jw schultz wrote:

> No Linux [R]AID improves sequential performance. How would
> reading 65KB from two disks in alternation be faster than
> reading continuously from one disk?
>
Raid-0 is ideally N times faster than a single disk, when
you have N disks. Because you can read continuously from N
disks instead of from 1, thereby N-doubling the bandwith.

Wether the current drivers manages that is of course another story.

Helge Hafting


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