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To: Kingson Gunawan <kingson@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: Any luck with DPT SmartRaid 4 and SMP FreeBSD-current???
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Kingson Gunawan wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> I am planning to use RAID 0 (no mirroring), just a straight stripping. 
> BTW, potentially, I will need to grow the array up to around 120GB. 
> However, that's somewhat in the future.
> This array will be read intensive.

  You will probably want RAID 5.  Reliability of large array is equal to
the reliability of one drive divided by the number of drives.  Unless
reliability is not a concern.

> Kingson

Tom