Ron O'Brien

Anthony

Thanks for your response, which does help.

I am also wondering about the speed aspect of RAID. I understand that RAID0
gives the fastest speeds, but offers no recovery benefits, whereas RAID1
offers the facility to just replace a drive (in theory at least - it wasn't
quite as straight forward when this happened to me some time ago!) but
whilst RAID1 speed is better than a non-RAID system it does not offer the
speed advantages of RAID0.

Which then leads to the next obvious question, would you 'actually' notice
the speed benefits or would you just be kidding yourself that this new RAID1
set up is brilliantly fast simply because it is newly setup and has no
clutter, no fragmented files, no left-over uninstall debrie etc etc that you
'old' PC had.

Also, we all know that you can buy two identical components one of which
could be far faster and more efficient than the other, so again, you have to
ask how efficient the rest of your setup is, including the hard drives (and
even the leads) when added to the RAID1 setup, again if any such component
has marginally passed the manufacturers quality control tests, would their
impact further reduce the RAID1 speed benefits - to possibly less than a
good non-RAID system

Ron