Raid Performance

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by deriklogov, Aug 8, 2009.

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    How much faster Raid0/1 than just regular single hard drive ?

    My server having problem with a lot of read/writes which makes server slow, now I am going to add Raid 1 with second hard drive, want to find out does it really help ?
     
    deriklogov, Aug 8, 2009 IP
  2. kailash

    kailash Well-Known Member

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    Yes, if you have disk IO problem I suggest you to go for RAID solution. This will certainly helpful.
     
    kailash, Aug 8, 2009 IP
  3. Janak

    Janak Peon

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    Yes, go for RAID 1 solution. It will decrease disk I/O of your server.
     
    Janak, Aug 9, 2009 IP
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    You can also move to higher RPM Hard Disks such as 10k RPM or higher in RAID setting.
     
    PhotonVPS-Jim, Aug 10, 2009 IP
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    You might expect to see twice the performance using RAID. Here are some comparison charts between single drives and RAID that visually demonstrates the performance increase with RAID.

    hxxp://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=sataraid&p=2

    I'm sure if you search a little bit you'll find other studies from magazines and testing labs that already explain the real world benefits of RAID vs a single fast hard drive. Let us know what you find out.
     
    awesometbn, Aug 20, 2009 IP