[plug] Disk striping

[Jason Nicholls]

Hiya,

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:16:26AM +0800, garry wrote:
> A mate of mine recently did some MCSE training, and came back bubbling about 
> "disk striping" as a way to improve performance.
> 
> Is this a NTFS only fix/enhancement?
> 
> Does this bring disk performance up to match ext2/3/ReiserFS?
> 
> I do know that the *nix file systems are efficient, but is this bridging the 
> gap?

Well that's called RAID 0 and can be done in software with linux, or with
special hardware. onboard (motherboard) IDE raid is getting quite popular with
the better motherboards now.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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