> Having said that however, RAID *IS* a great way to squeeze performace > out of older hardware for file storage and sharing purposes. > Distributing reads/writes through a raid controller enables utilization > of that maximum bandwidth, which would not otherwise be possible through > a single drive - even newer drives. It was suggested in an earlier message in this thread that a RAID controller has the added advantage that a dead/dying drive is not going take other drives with it. On an IDE controller, it was suggested, a dead master can kill a perfectly ok slave drive on the same controller. Can that be substantiated, or should this be considered some kind of folklore? - peter
