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Old 11-16-2007, 04:48 PM  
TidalWave
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boneprone, raid-0 is the most risky raid you can run.

whatever drives you put into raid-0 array will act as 1. so if just 1 drive dies, everything is lost.
this basically doubles the risk of just running 1 drive because you have the liability of both.

the only time to do RAID-0 is if you want speed but dont care about your data and downtime WHEN a drive fails (not if).

RAID-10 will give you both the benefits of RAID-0 (stripping) and RAID-1 (mirroring) in 1 package. the only reason people dont normally do it is because it requires 4 drives minimum and they dont have the budget for it.
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