Check out this site for RAID level descriptions and the pros/cons of each. http://www.acnc.com/raid.html Jim > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >