USB raid vs. hardrive (speed)

[Matthew_waz_up]

Would 8 average 16gb flash drives be more efficient than a 1tb seagate hhd, as in one be faster or slower. My seagate hhd can pull about 3mb per second if im downloading things from online. I also wonder if this would cut back on boot time. Please get back to me soon. Thank you.

 

[James Mason]

Depends on the USB speed of the connection. Also depends on your HDD, there are slow ones and fast ones.
Your download speed is most dependent on your.... download speed.

http://www.speedtest.net/

Typically, hard drives can write up around 100MBps on average.
You'd need a 800Mbps internet connection to match that.