SNIP,
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>I'm sorry if I'm not agree with you. AFAIK RAID 5 with 3HD is, 1 as primary, 1 as mirror and the other one as ECC. You cannot spread/stripe harddisk without the use of RAID 5+0. But I never did like you said. Can we stripe the HD with RAID 5 ?

Herman,

The RAID5 unit I worked with had 18 (possibly more) HDs. There were 3 banks holding 8 each, 2 of which were full and the third only partially. It was SCSI.

It was blazingly fast.