On 12/25/08 15:38, Karl Schmidt wrote: [snip]
I don't see much value in raid other than raid-1 (mirror) anymore with the huge, cheap drives available. There are times with RAID-0 (striping)
If your main focus is capacity, then you are correct. But distributing the data across multiple drives gives you better throughput, which is important for databases, file servers and big web sites.
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