| To: | James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: performance over multiple disks |
| From: | Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:16:42 -0800 |
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:49:47AM -0700, James Rich wrote: > Suppose you have a 6 megabyte file stored on disk. Would it be read > faster if it were stored contiguously on a single disk or spread > over multiple (say 4) disks? It depends.... but usually data over multiple disks reads faster, sometimes n-times the speed of a single disk (but not always). --cw |
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