[geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> OS/X 10.4 gives me the option to do a mirror (RAID 1) or striped (RAID 0) filesystem, if I put another 100 Meg IDE HD on the same on-board controller will I get a performance improvement with RAID 1, or is the on-board controller "bad"?

If they're on the same channel, you won't get a speed boost because only 
one IDE device per channel can talk at any given time.

Peace...  Sridhar