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Please stop trusting RAID 5 for your home NAS

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...
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RAID 5 vs RAID 0 perfomance ---->is Dell dumb?

Ok I have a dell workstation configured with 4 10,000rpm scsi drives set up in a RAID 5 array.<P>I get around 80meg/sec read speed, but 1.5meg/sec write ---!!!! what's with that write speed?<P>Dell ...