On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 08:47 -0500, Ryan Wagoner wrote: >> Not to mention the speed increases from RAID 5 or 10. > > Speed increase from RAID 10 yes, not RAID 5. > <http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html> RAID 5 does provide speed increases for read operations. There are still some applications where RAID 5 has its benefits. For a smaller department file server 3-4 TB drives in RAID 5 works great. The money saved can be put towards backups, etc. Having said that I use RAID 10 for most applications. Ryan