To RAID or not?
Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:12 am
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.
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.