On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:41:42 -0500 Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: >Is there any performance lost in using a software raid array >with only 1 disk? > >I was wanting to use the mdadm monitoring tools to monitor the >machines single disk drive for failures and such. Is there any >performance hit for such a setup? > For monitor drive health I would think smartd would be a better choice. >Some machines have RAID some machines dont (for me) and >I was thinking about a common setup. > >Also then if I want in the future I can actually just add the second >disk and now I have RAID. This is not a bad idea if you plan on actually upgrading running machines non-RAID machines to RAID 1. > >Jerry >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------------------------------------------- Dennis Willson