Calin Pirtea wrote:

> Hi Stephane,
>
> I've been using Raid0 on development machines and yes it is really that
> much faster. As for HDD failures I am amazed in 15 years you never saw
> disks completely crash. I've seen at least one every year running around
> 50 servers.

Very lucky - and not had any Maxtor disks in use :(
Could have sworn I'd cleared all of them out, but there was still one left on a
customers site .....

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