On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Brent Wood <Brent.Wood@niwa.co.nz> wrote:
> Does the RAID 1 array give any performance benefits over a single drive? I'd guess
> that writes may be slower, reads may be faster (if balanced) but data security is improved.
Unfortunately I didn't test a single drive as that's not a
configuration we would run our systems in. I expect that it would
reduce read performance and thus pgbench results some, but I can't
tell you how much in this case.
-Dave