Quote Originally Posted by NevBull View Post
Hi Mark
There have been lots of posts here about the pros and cons of various RAID configurations - I believe (and Richard will correct me on this) that the only viable external RAID system tested so far is the Apple Xserve Raid unning over fibre channel.
Nev.
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scsi raids are fine but dont work any better than a single disc - unless you want to do uncompressed video
so no point doing a raid.

xserve raid works better because it has a gigantic disc buffer and clever algorithms that overcome individual disc limitations.