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From: David Thorburn-Gundlach <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org>
To: Linux RAID list <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to know a hard drive will mix well
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2023 02:20:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230204022019.GI25616@jpo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAMCDedK==A1q-S97=MZGL2Wv_COC4DCGqh__2atSOHk2YBWAg@mail.gmail.com>

Roger, et al --

...and then Roger Heflin said...
% I have mixed many drives, I have never really had a major slowness.  At

Good to know.


% worst you will be limited by the drive with the slowest seeks/transfer
% rate.  So long as one disk's RPM is not significantly different you should

That's pretty much what I was wondering, but I imagine if it's the same
RPM and the same cache and the same SATA rate it should be ... about the
same.


% not notice it, unless you are running your array right at the limit.

Hmmph.  I'm not entirely sure I'm not anyway, but it is just a little PC
mobo running primary and daughtercard SATA ports.  A Real Server (tm) is
far, far beyond the current horizon :-)


% 
% Technically you may want to also look at another parm that is the sustained
% transfer rate range coming off the platter.  This will be a range that is
[snip]

Oh, thanks!  Sounds good.


HAND

:-D
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David T-G
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-04  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-02 12:43 how to know a hard drive will mix well David T-G
2023-02-02 18:52 ` Wols Lists
2023-02-02 22:47   ` Pascal Hambourg
2023-02-02 23:27     ` Wol
2023-02-02 23:36       ` Wol
2023-02-04  2:24       ` David Thorburn-Gundlach
     [not found] ` <CAAMCDedK==A1q-S97=MZGL2Wv_COC4DCGqh__2atSOHk2YBWAg@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-04  2:20   ` David Thorburn-Gundlach [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CAAMCDeerQZyrUG2FAn-y1MA-grb+zDotAYrJvBykqDBhFmAfeQ@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-05  4:04       ` throughput testing (was "Re: how to know a hard drive will mix well") David Thorburn-Gundlach

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