Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash at gmail.com> writes: > So if I have 6 drives on my RAID controller which do I choose? considering the port-cost of good raid cards, you could probably use md and get 8 or 10 drives for the same money. It's hard to beat more spindles for random access performance over a large dataset. (of course, the power cost of another 2-4 drives is probably greater than that of a raid card)