Raid 5 is for reliability, not for speed. You'd need to check out _all_ the specs, but I think you will find that normal NT disk striping is faster than Raid 5, and that Raid 3 can be about twice as fast as Raid 5. The bottom line is, if you want to be positive that you don't lose any data, then Raid 5 is the hot setup. If you want to MOVE data faster, there are other 'methods'.

In article Rob Rohrbough <Rob@ROHRBOUGH-SYSTEMS.COM> wrote: > Note that you have to activate Perfmon counters for disk IO (which > adds overhead - why they are off by default). ...

> > mrchurchill@my-deja.com wrote: > > > ...We were running SAS on an NT 4 workstation. Now we bought a > > > dedicated SAS workstation (an HP LC 2000 server, Hp netraid 1si > > > controller, nt 4 server with sp6a). Our objective was to run SAS > > > jobs faster. We put in six 18gig hot swap drives and configured > > > it for Raid 5 (hardware). However,... > > > Anyone know why? Is it because the new server has a raid 5 ...

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