On Wednesday 26 November 2003 12:04 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:

> Well, it depends on how you define a RAID. I define it as a Redundant Array
> of Inexpensive Disks. ;)
> Which  would qualify RAID 0 as *really* RAID. 

That's the argument: there's nothing "redundant" about pure striping.

Where you really see performance is when you have more than just a couple of 
drives in a RAID - like seven parallel drives.