Which type of RAID to you prefer?

[-0MEGA-] · 03-07-2006, 12:11 AM

What type of RAID do you prefer? I was thinking of getting a RAID 0/1 setup and just wanted to hear your experiences on RAID.

**Praetor** · 03-07-2006, 12:15 AM

5 and 50 for me or if the situation warrants it, raid6. (btw i edited your poll so the last entry is actually correct and/or useful)

[-0MEGA-] · 03-07-2006, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Praetor

(btw i edited your poll so the last entry is actually correct and/or useful)

oh ok, i wasnt quite sure on how it was worded, thanks.

I've begun to think about getting a RAID 0/1 array.

Ku-sama · 03-07-2006, 01:23 AM

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**Praetor** · 03-07-2006, 02:16 AM

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I've begun to think about getting a RAID 0/1 array.

If you're not concerned about data reliability, RAID0 is good: you get performance boost there (although I'd argue harddrives are so slow anyways that you wont notice much of a difference unless you regularly copying large blocks of data at a time .. aka sequential read/write ... random read/writes not gonna be majorly improved). If you're anal about not losing data, RAID1 is a perfect start.

Now until you get into anally redundant configurations, RAID5 should fill in the rest of the requirements

[-0MEGA-] · 03-08-2006, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Praetor

If you're not concerned about data reliability, RAID0 is good: you get performance boost there (although I'd argue harddrives are so slow anyways that you wont notice much of a difference unless you regularly copying large blocks of data at a time .. aka sequential read/write ... random read/writes not gonna be majorly improved). If you're anal about not losing data, RAID1 is a perfect start.

Now until you get into anally redundant configurations, RAID5 should fill in the rest of the requirements

well after the fact that i almost lost all of my data, i would prefer going with the 0/1 so i can have the reliability of RAID1, with the performance of RAID 0. Only thing keeping me from doing this is that i dont feel like buying 4 hard drives and onyl being able to use 2 for storage.

**Praetor** · 03-08-2006, 02:36 AM

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Only thing keeping me from doing this is that i dont feel like buying 4 hard drives and onyl being able to use 2 for storage.

In that case, have a look at RAID5: instead of 2*N, you're using N+1 solution

[-0MEGA-] · 03-08-2006, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Praetor

In that case, have a look at RAID5: instead of 2*N, you're using N+1 solution

thanks, i'll look into that.

View Poll Results: Which type of RAID do you prefer?
RAID 0	3	30.00%
RAID 1	3	30.00%
RAID 2	0	0%
RAID 3	1	10.00%
RAID 4	0	0%
RAID 5	1	10.00%
RAID 0+1/1+0	2	20.00%
Voters: 10. You may not vote on this poll

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