If you're running RAID in windows, be careful that what you're using is
actually a hardware RAID.
There are a lot of software-in-windows-driver raids that don't perform
any better than the software raid that comes with the various windows
server releases - but my experience with them has been 'way less than
stellar - as in one drive failing causing the other drives to be
"scribbled" on - two separate instances at different sites.
And in either kind of software raid, I'd strongly suggest raid 10 over
a raid 5 - remember, parity is -not- being done in a dedicated
processor.
If I just had a bunch of drives that I wanted to make look like just
one drive, I'd look for an adapter that supported JBOD ("just a bunch
of disks").
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