I know the basic of raid and know that both Raid 1 and Raid 5 offer redundancy, which is what I want. My question is if Raid 5 would be faster for read speeds. I'm sure it would be slower for write speeds because the data must be written to 3 drives instead of 2. However, wouldn't read speeds be faster? How much?
Also, in Raid 1 configuration do the two hard drives balance the load? I mean if one hard drive is accessing one site and the other is doing nothing would the second one take the next requst for a site? Do they share the work?
