takes up valuable clock cycles that could be spent on rendering a drop of sweat on the 2km distant alien's brow.

Sadly, I lack sufficient high-speed drives to run my array at U320. Ultra2 (80MB/s) it is for now, and way too small at that. Er, yes, this is a home machine. :-p

_{*Talk to Myke. Basically, you lose the card and you lose the array. I'll spare you the counterargument, conjecture about software RAID with power failures.}