Re: [LAU] Software RAID for Ardour?

I don't know about RAID 1 (mirroring).. but I have been using striping (RAID 0)
on lesser systems without any apparent impact on latency or CPU load.

On Mon May 25 19:40 , Brent Busby sent:

>I wondered what the prevalent opinion was about setting up a software
>raid mirror of two sata drives under Linux LVM. This is on a 3.2GHz
>quad core AMD system that almost certainly has plenty of free CPU. Will
>this provide extra disk i/o that could be usefully applied to getting
>more simultaneous tracks, or will using a software mirror interfere with
>the RT kernel or cause latency issues/instability somewhere?
>
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