Quote Originally Posted by samsc
im not a fan of sata drives in these kindof cases.
sata connectors are horrible.

but if someone can make it work then its worth a try.
But bear in mind that the headline data rate does nothing - nothing at all.
Its the drive latency and seek times that are important with multiple layers.
drive latency and seek time do not reduce with multiple drives in this configuration - if you are really lucky they will increase.
.

Since this is a Hardware RAID card, how is this different that the RAID controller used in an XSERVE RAID for instance? I undersatnd the drive latency is what is important, but once again, what is the difference compared to what is used in an xserve RAID? I thought they were just average, run of the mill drives in there.