I am getting twin Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 3Gb/s 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s hard drives for my build. I plan on doing RAID. When it comes to RAID 0 and RAID 1, which is better? Suggestions?
Raid 0+1 - total capacity is cut in half, you need a min of 4 disks can have up to 3 disks fail.
I keep mixing the raid 0 and 1 up (which one is the stripe or the mirror)
I recently got reminded so for now i remember.......
I may be wrong, but I know that many raid setup are only worth the effort when they are done on a controller that does not rely on native motherboard processing like onboard raid and sata channels do. Some low-end cards only offer controllers and channels, so be sure to consider the external card with decent chipsets like adaptec or lsi.
since it looks like your a new egg kind of guy,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136009
yes Virginia, they cost more. they also have 16M of cache and 1M MTBF. you read that right, 1,000,000 hours, they are near line drives. RAID 0 them and install XPPro x64 in 20 minutes.
I had 3 of those in a 5 array, and just switched over to 5, 250G models of the RAID class disks in my main server at home.
This may be a bit of a stretch but has anyone thought of RAID 5EE as a possible solution for this guy? I mean yeah it's a lot more expensive to get a controller for this kind of RAID considering only top-level controllers use it but if he's concerned about data protection and throughput it might not be a bad idea if he can find a refurbished controller that supports RAID 5EE.
Again this might be a stretch and I might just be blowing steam but hey, just thought I'd throw that in for you guys.