| software RAID has a purpose
I hate it when people say that software RAID is worthless. It's a software implementation, like VPC is a software implementation of a PC. Sometimes it's exactly what you need, and free is a whole lot cheaper than $150.
I have 2 30G 5400 RPM drives combined in a stripe set. The throughput is roughly double what the individual drives are. The capacity is double what each drive is. Convenient for pushing around 20-40 G at a time.
As for compatibility with my OS, I'll take OS level software RAID over motherboard RAID any day.
And on the topic of performance, Hardware kicks everybody's butt. But SCSI has virtually nothing to do with performance, or RAID. No drives outrun their busses, so the bus speed is not a big factor.
Anyway, this thread was about trying RAID with OS X. There's another thread here about What is RAID. And in line with the usefulness that btoneill mentioned, 9 Classic doesn't run from a striped array, probably not from any software RAID set. Just in case you were planning on that. :-)
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