> > > What are you going to be doing that makes you think raid 0 is desirable? > > > For modern home machines with lots of memory, this probably isn't going to > > > give you much of a speed up in typical use. It will make the chances of > > > your file system being lost because of a hardware problem, about double. > > > Raid 1 or 10 seem to be more useful for home users, than raid 0. > > > > > > > No! If the prob of failure during an interval T is pf, the prob of failure > > for an array of 2 drives during T is 1 - (1-pf)^2. For small values of pf 1 - (1-pf)^2 is very close to 2*pf. For small intervals pf will be small.
