need advice setting up raid - GoFuckYourself.com

fris · 03-28-2010, 12:37 PM

I have some hardware on the way.

I will be using a 160gig solid state drive for the os.

got a 1tb drive for apps

and 5 x 2tb drives, i wanna do raid on.

any advice on getting started?

dav3 · 03-28-2010, 01:03 PM

You may need some more drive space, 11.16TB just won't cut it in today's computing world.

AdultEUhost · 03-28-2010, 01:53 PM

it all depends on the usage and your requirements, do you want to use RAID as part of speeding your I/O traffic up (faster read/write access) or is it all about data security (in which case you should use 1 disk for hot space)

With some more info I should be able to give you a better advice based on your situation

sandman! · 03-28-2010, 02:02 PM

why 5 drives ?

raid cards are either 4 port or 8 port.

the cheapest decent raid card is the 2405 you can find one for around $200

http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support...raid/SAS-2405/

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