--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Michael Weissenbacher <mw@...> wrote:

>
> > I also recomend for speed an raid 0 ,
> > it's not so safe than raid 1/5 but You should do backup on another machine anyway
> It largely depends on the use case. If you can afford to lose 1 day worth of data go RAID-0, in any other case it's suidide. To get combined speed + safety use raid-10.
>
> just my 2c
>

somehow i agree in case of hard drive failure but
raid is not a solution for backup and replication
in case one /dev/evil user deletes all your data , raid5/1 can't save you
even the good admins do mistakes