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Posted by Drew in Houston [Email] (more from Drew in Houston) on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:39:36 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: OT: RAID, steve, Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:25:14
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I have 2 PC's and both are on RAID.

Now, my equipment is getting a little long in the tooth (all drives are SATA 1st gen.) but the concept is similar.

For the PC that I use most often I have two WD 10,000rpm 32 Gig drives in a 0 array and it really cooks. Of course the potential failure rate is greater than using only one drive but it really is fast--I wouldn't run a zero array without backup. I'm using Norton Ghost and periodically dump backup onto an extra 80 gig drive.

For my media PC I'm running 3 250 gig WD's in a RAID 5 array through a Promise FastTrak S150 SX4-M (PCI). This computer has about 320 gigs of music on it that I don't want to rebuild ever. If you're thinking about running RAID5 it's important to get a controller card that does it's own parity calculation so that you don't load the processor.

I've fooled around with RAID1 setups and they work great but it's hard to swallow only getting half the drive space that you buy. I built a computer for my parents with RAID1 and they've had 3(!) drive failures over about 4 years without losing any information (all Maxtor's btw, which is the reason I'm running WD's now)

RAID5 seems to be the best combination of cost effectiveness vs. redundancy and there's some decent consumer controller cards available but it's also a little more pricey.

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