From: Doc On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Christopher Smith wrote: Didn't I say "reliable"? Even RAID 0, plain striping, carries a certain overhead in drivespace. The big problem is that with simple striping you lose everything if you lose anything. RAID is *expensive*, even if you get your adapter free. Drivespace overhead, tuning slices, matching drives, power consumption, noise, etc. BIG cost is the price of drives, for example 5x9G drives vs. 1x36G. <My Not-So-Humble Opinion> A multi-channel adapter or multiple adapters, running JBOD, with intelligent filesystem groupings, will probably boost your speed as much as RAID will. (Assuming a single-user general-use Unix desktop.) RAID can be tuned to big sequential reads or writes, or a lot of small r/w, but it's damn difficult to get middle-ground or all-around performance. </My Not-So-Humble Opinion> All that said, it's good practice and fun. Doc