Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Dec 2005 13:18 UTC, submitted by cpina
"Although having this reputation, my question was: was a RAID 1 system too slow? Was it slower than not having any RAID? In fact, there are people that say that it is the other way round - these people say that having software RAID 1 is faster than having just one hard disk drive. In any case, who is right?" 
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2005-07-06
Well, yes of course. It was a very over-simplistic statement, you are right. But the gist of it is that the writes are "hopefully" broken up. That way you not only gain the space of 2 disks, but the performance gain of "faux" extra platters.