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We call it 'adaptive' RAID," said Joseph Argento, vice president of marketing and support at Seek. "We determine the highest-performance way to put data onto the RAID: most of it is at RAID Level 5, but we take about ten percent for mirroring. When you're doing small block transfers, it'll write out in RAID 1, which is faster than RAID 5. But if you're streaming data, it'll put it out at the RAID 3 equivalent, via RAID 5.
"That's what we offer," he told Storage Inc. at Comdex. "Of course, you can turn it off, and the RAID just looks like...