----- Original Message -----=20 From: "V G" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [EE] Building/buying a server > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Bob Ammerman =20 > wrote: >> The general rule is that RAID will speed up reads but slow down writes. > > On what RAID levels? RAID 0 speeds up both. As I understand it, RAID 0 =3D STRIPING isn't really RAID at all because th= ere=20 is no redundancy. I guess you could call it AID instead. -- 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 .