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Posted 27 March 2012 - 01:39 PM
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 01:40 PM
RAID 1 by far, especially with small writes.
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 01:46 PM
Depends on what you're wanting them for. I'd always go for RAID 10 or RAID 1 over RAID 5, but that's just me.
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 03:09 PM
raid 1 for good read speeds ok write speeds
raid 0 for good read write speeds
raid 5 good read speeds but has poor write speeds
raid 0 for good read write speeds
raid 5 good read speeds but has poor write speeds
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 04:30 PM
i suggest raid 1 unless you are doing work that requires more speed.
raid-1- 1 drive can fail, hence redundant
raid-0 - either drive goes bad and you lose all the data, none recoverable
raid-5 - speed of raid-0 BUT if more than 1 drive goes bad at a time you lose everything
if you limited to only 3 drives i would go with raid-5 for the speed and simi redundancy,
if you can get more (like 4 or more) go with raid-6 (basically raid-0 with redundancy)
otherwise, like i said at the start, if you don't need speed and want to save money, just get 2 drives and go with raid-1.
raid-1- 1 drive can fail, hence redundant
raid-0 - either drive goes bad and you lose all the data, none recoverable
raid-5 - speed of raid-0 BUT if more than 1 drive goes bad at a time you lose everything
if you limited to only 3 drives i would go with raid-5 for the speed and simi redundancy,
if you can get more (like 4 or more) go with raid-6 (basically raid-0 with redundancy)
otherwise, like i said at the start, if you don't need speed and want to save money, just get 2 drives and go with raid-1.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 07:26 AM
Thanks for all the replies. I've noticed that I have become somewhat of a leech in the forum, asking a whole lot more questions than I am answering. I will change as of today, you guys are the best.
I'm not sure if RAID 5 actually has improved write speeds. I currently have a RAID 5 array, but seem to get slow write speeds compared to a single drive I have in my system. I was just trying to get some opinions from other system builders. Thanks for all the help you have given me over the past couple of months.
I'm not sure if RAID 5 actually has improved write speeds. I currently have a RAID 5 array, but seem to get slow write speeds compared to a single drive I have in my system. I was just trying to get some opinions from other system builders. Thanks for all the help you have given me over the past couple of months.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 07:57 AM
RAID 1 is preferable in every way over RAID 5 when you have few drives. Unless you're doing 4+ drives in RAID 5 it's pointless. I would also suggest avoiding RAID 5 entirely if your drives are 1 TB or more because of the chances of a rebuild failure.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 08:58 AM
both raid 5 and raid 1 have write overhead that slows writes, but they both have quite good read speeds. At least with modern raid controllers.
And dont do raid 6... its not like raid 0 with redundancy... its raid 5 except with two parody drives instead of only one... Its even slower than raid 5 is!
Really the easiest way to decide is, even number of drives(2 or 4) go with RAID1 or 1+0(AKA 10), odd number of drives(3 or 5) go with raid-5.
This isn't knew information, im mostly just repeating what everyone else has already said, but another opinion never hurts!
And dont do raid 6... its not like raid 0 with redundancy... its raid 5 except with two parody drives instead of only one... Its even slower than raid 5 is!
Really the easiest way to decide is, even number of drives(2 or 4) go with RAID1 or 1+0(AKA 10), odd number of drives(3 or 5) go with raid-5.
This isn't knew information, im mostly just repeating what everyone else has already said, but another opinion never hurts!
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 09:10 AM
Well RAID 1 writes as fast as a single drive. RAID 5 can write about the same for large files but it's slooooow for small writes.
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