I saw an interesting post on Slashdot not too long ago where someone asked the a question regarding a RAID setup. What I found interesting was not so much their question, rather the comments from the replies. If you are considering using RAID in your setup, this is a great thread to read. One commenter put it best: [T]he reason for using RAID is NOT as a backup....

Two quad core QX9775 processors, 800MHz FBDIMM 4GB RAM.. doesn’t sound like anything out of your grasp, right? But how about if you put in 24 SSDs totaling 6TB in a RAID setup? Yep, that’s a bit extreme. The crazy thing is that it worked. It could break a speed of 2GB per second. It could open the entire MS Office Suite – all programs –...

Two things blend together to make RAID more powerful than ever: An increasing number of die-hard, PC-loving speed- freaks and an ever-decreasing price of the hard drive. We\’re (for most of us) beyond the stage of thinking our hard drives are too small. We\’re beyond the stages of making due because a hard drive costs so much. But, for the PC...