I first was made aware of RAID systems with regards to their reliability abilities. Incidently, the guy who runs luminous-landscape.com recently wrote a review of a RAID drive (the ReadyNAS 600 by Infrant Technologies) that I found interesting. Thanks for the clarification! -dan c. At 01:16 PM 12-03-05 -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >Dan C <bladman99@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I thought the whole point to RAID drives was to allow for the loss of a >> drive without compromising the stored data. > >Nope, the whole point originally was *speed*. The reliability >variants were later ideas. >