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Originally posted by Fubarian:
yes, you need 4 to do the mirror/stripe deal.
I'm still testing a theory, but I haven't confirmed it yet, but from my 1st benchmarks, -mirroring- will give you more xfer rates than stripe. Why?...I'm assuming its the overhead, the stripe has to be checked, a mirror doesn't. 1st few benchmarks I was getting 170 megs/sec (2 drivers, 15.3 gig maxtors, 5400rpm and 512k cache, udma 100) and with stripe, I was getting around 65. Again, it might vary with bigger / faster spin / more cache drives... for the record, I was using a benchmark utility called Atto.
What board were you using to create the array?