@gregory.levonian.net Shut up Apple whore..... the Xeon Bros are talking.
(For context the OP and your truly use RAID0 with voluminous, recomputable derived data and scratch pads. For example a set of scripts of 1000 #perl loc populates my hard disks with data from NCBI and EMBL. I could not care less if the RAID goes belly up - I will suffer no data loss. However the N x write and speed up when doing database work is worth the absent risk. Not everyone is hoarding movies GGG)