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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
I don't know the technicals. All I know is that two drives were seen as one. The computer was set up like that back when 2.6 Ghz was the top of the line for speed. I can't remember how far back that is.
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Is it a large virtual, or mirrored drive?
You can use RAID for striping which basically doubles the read and write speed of the array since it combines two physical drives into one virtual (double sized) drive.
The other version of low end RAID is mirroring, which writes everything to both physical drives. One can fail and you still have a perfect copy on the second.
Sounds like you may have had a striping setup if one drive dying killed the array... personally I would only use striping if I needed fast scratch space, not for permanent storage.