nick.maniscalco@alfalaval.com wrote:
> 
>      if one disk dies in a striped volume (a volume without parity) all is
>      lost.  i would call that fragile.
>


Yes, that's the tradeoff. But spindle failures have become
pretty rare such that with a decent backup package or with
some applications (e.g., large video servers who just need
a large fast cache) that striping is quite adequate.