I'm here at my in-laws' and their computer is malfunctioning. It appears that the person that built this machine (who did total overkill on everything) built it with a striped RAID array. It has ...

Defragging a RAID array has basically the same effect as defragging a single drive. You see, the defrag program doesn't handle the RAID operations.

We saw solid performance from a four-drive, 100GB array, using a striped volume. In our tests, the array was twice as fast as a single drive.

It’s not as fast as a striped RAID 0 array (which has no data redunancy to help preserve your data in case of a drive failure), but faster than a mirrored RAID 1 array.

Want to get the maximum performance out of your Macbook Pro laptop? We might have a solid solution for your by using solid state drives and striped RAIDs.

I don't recommend RAID 5 on small arrays which is why I didn't test it on the PeDA. Either stripe (AID 0), or mirror (RAID 1), or mirror and then stripe (RAID 10).

While RAID 5 isn’t exactly the Holy Grail of desktop NAS, it is a very attractive option that combines the speed of striped RAID 0 and sufficient data protection without a humongous loss of ...

This device features a 7200RPM, 2TB striped RAID array and connects to the PC via FireWire 800, 400 or USB 2.0.

The smallest RAID arrays are 4 drives, but 6-8 drives in a RAID stripe is most common. With RAID 5, one drive's worth of capacity is dedicated to parity, while in RAID 6 two drive's worth are.