On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:49:17PM +1000, dkwok wrote:
> I have read something about Raid-0 to the effect that the size of the 2 disk joining together also has to be of equal size. Can anyone elaborate? I have done one but one disk is 20G and the other is 15G. Does it mean that the parity will not be distributed evenly? Or in fact the I/O performance will not be optimum?
> 

I think RAIDframe don't support disks of different size insode the same
RAID, but ccd does. However, if as they're from different size you won't
be able to strip them, they will just get concatened.

> Also if joining 3 disk together the speed improvements will be roughly increased by 3 folds given the 3 disks of equal size in a Raid-0 setup??

Yes, should be close to that.

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