[linux-lvm] LVM - Combining different hard drives with different specs ?

James Hawtin oolon at ankh.org
Mon May 23 11:10:50 UTC 2011


Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>
> Even for RAID, they don't have to match.  For RAID1, write speed will 
> follow the slowest drive.
Though combining lower and higher speed drives can increase the wear 
rate on the larger drive (that is atleast what we found when a 10k and 
15k had to be used in a mirror (due to spare drive availablity).

James




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