1 IDE Controler, Mirroring RAID, and speed question.

From: Sherif Zaroubi (blah_at_blah.com)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:06:13 -0400

Hello,
I was asked a simple question (like most questions), but with an answer I
can't come up with (again like most questions).
We have 1 IDE controler and we want to build a mirroring RAID with 2
drives in master/slave, and the questions is: is it faster to
have the 2 drives in mirroring or have them in a non-RAID setup ?

All I can find was:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html
That states: "Running disks as master/slave is horrible for performance.
IDE is really bad at accessing more that one drive per bus."
And the questions is: Is it better than a non RAID option?

Thank you for your time. 

-- 
Sherif Zaroubi

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