[G4] EIDE and Ultra ATA RAID

[Philip J Robar]

On Apr 25, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Ralph Garrett wrote:

> Some thoughts on RAID Arrays.
>
> RAID 0, Striping a matched set of drives does not decrease the MTBF  
> for the array, the MTBF remains the same as for a single drive.

This is simply not true. Every drive you add increases the chance of  
the array failing.  See http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/ 
concepts/rel_Rel.htm.

Phil