Building a new system, and wondering what input I can get about a SATA RAID 0 + 1 system?
I'm confident enough in the capabilities of either P4 Northwood 3.2 -and- AMD 64 3200+ with a gig or RAM, ATI X800 PRO, and Audigy 2ZX.
So I'm thinking about building the system around the use 4 x 120GB SATA drives, as HDD is going to be by far the largest bottleneck.
I have some questions though:
1) How is managing a RAID aray? Better software than others?
2) Motherboard support? Any ideas on whether a native or add-in solution is best? Know any decent mobo's which natively support SATA RAID 0 + 1?
3) Scaling? How do I scale a system which is based on RAID 0 + 1? For my next upgrade (to HDDs with more than a terabyte each) - is the process of migrating drives going to hurt me?
4) Drive Failure: Is the process of rebuilding a RAID 0 + 1 array easy?
Thanks people.
To RAID or not?
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well I don't know about all those questions you just asked, probably cause I just woke up. but I just built a SATA Raid striping config & it flat out kicks ass! I read that raid doubled the performance recently, so I thought I'ld try it out & it's great. I got 2 7,500 seagate ATA 100 drives adapted to SATA via adapters & connected to my Asus a7n8x-e deluxe. which is built in.
I vouge for it being twice as fast!
I vouge for it being twice as fast!
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It would be smarter to go with raid5 if you are going to run 4 drives Mobius. Striping + Mirroring works and gives you redundancy but it only gives you half the capacity of the four drives. RAID5 would give you the full capacity of thee of the four drives combined and still have protection from failure. There are plenty of Serial ATA RAID controllers that can handle a RAID5 out there.
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