Raid 1, Raid 0 or No Raid

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by davez, Mar 28, 2007.

  1. craneman

    craneman



    Incorrect, RAID 5 only needs a minimum of 3 drives.
     
    #11     Mar 30, 2007
  2. Wrong. Raid 0 is a big win for small files as well. With N drives you get a speedup of approximately N with seek dominated workloads, unless your I/O is single threaded.

    Martin
     
    #12     Mar 30, 2007
  3. As I type this (on my Dell Latitude laptop), I'm sitting about ten feet away from my Dell server group. That includes a Poweredge 6300, a 4400, two 2500's, a 6600, and two fully populated drive arrays. And this is my little setup at home. They run various configurations from Raid 0, 1, and 10. This might help you out a bit too:

    http://www.prepressure.com/techno/raid.htm

    If you'd like to chat about it a bit, PM me. :)
     
    #13     Apr 2, 2007
  4. forexbird

    forexbird

    I wouldn't do it. Distributing your data over 2 HDDs doubles your risk of losing data. One HDD goes, all your data goes. The read/write speed is an argument but imo it's too risky.
     
    #14     May 9, 2007