>>Raid0 increases the chances of
>>server failure if any drive goes down, the array cannot be rebuilt and you
>>must start from scratch or restore from a backup, i.e. increased down
>>time.  Raid1 has slower right times.

> I've never seen RAID1 writing be slower than RAID5.  what's your
reference?

I stated this wrong.  Raid1 has slower writes that Raid0

> Which RAID makes no difference in speed if the disk system isn't
> stressed/congested.

Exactly.   3 ax 15k rpm drives on a 5 mb connection did not appear to be a
bottleneck to me.


Todd



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