----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Alex Wood" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [EE] Building/buying a server >>> I have only used RAID 1 before but a quick read up makes me think that >>> read/write times are going to be very slow, especially with the amount >>> of disks you need. >> >> Really? RAID 5/6 is slow? Isn't it faster than a large single disks? >> I'd imagine it actually is pretty fast. >=20 > Just a guess. Like I said I have never used it before. I would suggest > you research it and find out what its actual pitfalls are. But > accessing sveral disks to retive data seems like it would take longer > then a single disk (for small files). The general rule is that RAID will speed up reads but slow down writes. -- Bob Ammerman RAm Systems --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .