That's not really true. a hardware RAID5 should be much faster than a single disk. The data is not actually replicated X times. There is, however, parity data. But, because of the fact that both data and parity are striped across all drives, you should see a noticeable performance increase (assuming you're using SCSI...if you're using IDE, it's a whole nother ball game, and I'm not very familiar with the rules other than me no likie) On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jason Lohrenz wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > I was under the impression by some that RAID-5 you gain read speed > performance, but the write performance is slower because it has to get > replicated X times depending on the # of drives in the array. But I'll > probably stick with this then. Thanks again! > > JasonL