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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (1396)11/9/1997 1:24:00 AM
From: David A. Lethe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9256
 
>RAID systems are not only safer but faster as well

Not true. They are significantly slower on writes, and random reads.
RAID manufacturers have to add microprocessors and a huge amount of cache to controllers to minimize these penalties, but even with all this extra hardware, they are usually just a tad slower than JBOD.