Tell that to my friend who lost his job to an H-1B. Be sure you're wearing a bulletproof vest at the time.
Well, some aren't incompentent. They're anti-social psychotics who should be locked in a padded room.
If your friend can't have a rational discussion about immigration without shooting someone, then I think your friend has many, many more problems than just losing his job.
No matter how fast a single drive is, striped drives are faster...
It depends. If you have a perfect setup, transfer speeds are, of course, better. However, statistically seek times are going to be worse, because for any seek both drives need to seek, and they'll never get to the data at exactly the same time.
But there is no guarantee that any random laptop with two or more hard drives is going to be a "perfect" setup. Who's to say that the controller and the drivers are going to be able to send commands to both drives simultaneously, and recieve data from both drives simultaneously? Given the strange and non-standard stuff wandering around on a lot of laptops, I wouldn't be suprised at all if software "RAID" striping ended up being crazy slow.
I also want to point out that although striping has recently been given the cute nickname "RAID 0", it really isn't RAID at all. I shouldn't be too suprised if the fellow who originally posted this meant striping, because he seems totally unclear of the meaning of even normal english terms like "meta." He doesn't seem any more confused than most of the clueless wanks who get selected byt the editors for "Ask Slashdot" columns, though...
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Well, some aren't incompentent. They're anti-social psychotics who should be locked in a padded room.
If your friend can't have a rational discussion about immigration without shooting someone, then I think your friend has many, many more problems than just losing his job.
It depends. If you have a perfect setup, transfer speeds are, of course, better. However, statistically seek times are going to be worse, because for any seek both drives need to seek, and they'll never get to the data at exactly the same time.
But there is no guarantee that any random laptop with two or more hard drives is going to be a "perfect" setup. Who's to say that the controller and the drivers are going to be able to send commands to both drives simultaneously, and recieve data from both drives simultaneously? Given the strange and non-standard stuff wandering around on a lot of laptops, I wouldn't be suprised at all if software "RAID" striping ended up being crazy slow.
I also want to point out that although striping has recently been given the cute nickname "RAID 0", it really isn't RAID at all. I shouldn't be too suprised if the fellow who originally posted this meant striping, because he seems totally unclear of the meaning of even normal english terms like "meta." He doesn't seem any more confused than most of the clueless wanks who get selected byt the editors for "Ask Slashdot" columns, though...