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Is it worth buying SSDs for a RAID?
Im seeing people using SSDs for RAID-0 and getting excellent improvements in read/write rates.
But now there is a good opportunity to acquire another SSD Force Corsair F60 identical to mine. I'm ...
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Can I RAID 0 two secondary drives without involving my primary disk?
I have a 60GB SSD as my primary OS drive. It has a few core applications on it, but because of the size, I don't want to put too much on it.
My intention is to get two 1TB drives to use as storage ...
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Practical RAID Performance?
I've always thought the following to be a general rule of thumb for RAID:
RAID 0: Best performance for READ and WRITE from stripping, greatest risk
RAID 1: Redundant, decent for READ (I believe it ...
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Will setting up a RAID-0 array boost my IO performance?
I currently have a single 640 WD HDD with 16MB cache.
Sometimes during heavy I/O usage the machine slows down.
Would I benefit much by getting a second HDD identical to the first and setting up a ...
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LVM vs /dev/md0 performance problem
I am trying to tune my NAS, running openfiler, and wondering why I'm getting relatively poor read performance from 4 WD RE3 drives in RAID 5.
When I run hdparm on the meta device I get the levels of ...
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Can you explain these PassMark Disk Scores on my RAID1 vs RAID10 volumes?
I need some help in interpretting the following speed tests on two Volumes on my home PC.
The test:
CrystalDiskMark 2.2
Windows 7 Disk Cache was disabled
Both volumes were 0% fragmented before the ...
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Recommendations for hard drive performance boost
I'm going to be building a new system soon and I'm willing to spend a few more dollars to improve my hard drive performance. This will be a general use system so I just want to see HD intensive tasks ...
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