Re: Why are reads not balanced across my RAID-1?

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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:04 AM,  <keld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The reading is not balanced because it does not make sense to do balanced
> reads for sequential reading. In RAID-1 the disk sectors are consequitive.
> So if you would read one sector from one disk, and the following sector from the other disk,
> then the next read from disk 1 would need to skip a full resolvation of the disk,
> which may cost something like 8 ms.  So better read contigously from the same disk, and hope
> for some other IO request that can use disk 2.


Does that rationale hold for SSDs?
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