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

Hey guys, I've been doing the research and I'm confused at which is better for my needs: I'm in the film business and I download the footage from the camera's, and that generates A LOT of data per ...

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 ...