> My point is that, with RAID 0, if one disk fails the data on all > the disks > is lost.
And if you have one disk, and it fails, all data is lost. > Also, MTBF is additive in this case because of what I previously > said. No it is NOT. I designed RAID controllers and disk subsystems, as well as wrote and reviewed the specs for many a server, and have a lot of experience in this area. It is NOT additive at all. That is a misunderstanding of what MTBF and failure modes are.