software RAID 1: does it use a lot of resources?
Hello
I run a file server in my office which has RAID 1 on all of it. It is 1gz P3 with 1Gb ram.
I went for software RAID because it is cheaper. I have not noticed any speed problems, (eg, I have not noticed it being slow at all) and we have a lot of people (20+) writing to it constantly.
I was previously concerned that software RAID 1, being run by the kernel/cpu would eat up a load of resources and be slow to write to. However, it is not.
Am I alone? Or is software RAID 1 really well optimised and barely affects the system at all?
Hamish
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