Everybody says you need RAID 0 for speed. You don't.

Capable of putting extra HDDs and SSDs to good use, Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Drives (or RAID) is a neat feature when you’re as much of a data ...

I have a RAID-6 array set up on one computer (let's call it the "server") and am mounting a directory via NFS from it onto another computer (the "client"). When I do any sort of operation on the ...

Does your RAID controller have battery backup? If it doesn't, it'll typically disable all write caching, which really impairs performance. One hypothesis: with 16KB chunks, when you're local, the OS ...