I honestly never understood the purpose behind a RAID setup.  Maybe I dn't
understand it, but it seems to me if you have 4 1 TB drives set up in a RAID
you just have 1TB duplicated 4 times.  Makes losing one or two drives
meaningless in this case, and that's the point.  But you're talking about 1
TB, not 4.

Then again, 1TB is a LOT of space.  but the principle's the same.  Unless
I'm missing the boat completely.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/14/11 5:33 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
>
>> On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote:
>>
>>  The 2-SATA PCI card is worth it, it will speed up the system quite a
>>> bit. At least it did on my old G4!
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>
> It also makes quite a bit of difference how they are setup and how they are
used. If they are RAID 0, of course they will be faster, at risk of data
loss. Since he was talking about video, that is a very intensive disc
application so the test would have to be with massive read/writes as you
would do in video editing.

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