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Old 11-02-2006, 02:38 PM
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Re: what do you think of this for storage?
With a 4 drive raid 0-1 or 3 (or 4) drive raid 5, you can enjoy increased speeds and fault tolerance in case a drive fails.

I just installed a RAID 5 on my main PC with four 250 GB drives. With a RAID 5, you loose the capacity of one drive (so the hit is smaller with more drives) but you're still up and running if a drive fails.

Read speeds are 3x faster, write speeds 2x faster.
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