I think banks meant to s/strip/stripe, in which case RAID 0 == striping. And, yes, striping is purely for perf, no redundancy.
HTH, -Jason ________________________________________ From: Paul Prescod [pres...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:07 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Integrity of batch_insert and also what about sharding? On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:02 PM, banks <bankse...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then from an IT standpoint, if i'm using a RF of 3, it stands to reason that > running on Raid 1 makes sense, since RAID and RF achieve the same ends... it > makes sense to strip for speed and let cassandra deal with redundancy, eh? Isn't it RAID-0 that's for pure speed? Paul Prescod