> [ what's faster? ] What's faster is reading from more than 1 disk. it could be raid 5 across 7 drives. it could be a stripe across 7 drives. it's all relative. what's fastest is hardware based raid. You have to choose the right tech for the right app. If you're doing fileserving across 100Mbit, it makes no sense to go for a huge ultra fast performing disk array, because 100Mbit is going to be your primary bottleneck. You have to ask specific questions to get specific answers.
