"Philip Andrews" wrote:
> - I still can't see the point of using RAID 0 at all: because
> although it may increase system speed by reducing the
> HDD-write 'bottleneck', the loss of one drive in the array
> would mean a total loss of stored data on all of the drives.
> Surely, RAID 0 must actually serve to make a system more
> fragile, unless I've missed something?;


Yes, RAID 0 does roughly double the probability of data
loss by hard drive failure. But RAID 0 is for speed. RAID 1
(mirroring) is for reliability. See the RAID Primer at:
http://www.finitesystems.com/PRODUCT/raid/raidlevel.htm .


*TimDaniels*