On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:03:54 -0430, "Carlos Marcano" said: > On the newer machine, I installed the WD Black hard disk's in RAID0 > configuration, just for testing because it is a clean, no production, > box yet. It is on Vista :( and I can still manage to see a big > improvement on data transfer. I might consider keeping the RAID0 but > under Linux and do daily backups to the other machine to prevent any > data loss due the RAID0. Would going RAID5 or RAID 0+1/1+0 be a better > option? If you need speed then anything other than RAID 0 is going to slow you down unless you use a fast RAID controller card. And in my limited experience I have tried RAID 5 and later changed to RAID 1 because recovery is easier with RAID 1 and also RAID 5 is very slow when in degraded mode. Cheerful regards, Bob -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist