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easypanic 11th January 2006 12:42

To RAID or not to RAID
 
Well, situation:

I've got a DFI with two raptors for windows on my SATA onboard.
My DFI is equipped with the sil3114 chipset for four other hard drives. I've got 3x Seagate 250GB's for this chipset.

What to do:

1= (situation now) 2x250GB with RAID 0 for working on it and 1x250GB acting as backup

or

2= 3x250GB as RAID 5 ?

Anyone experienced with RAID5?

jmke 11th January 2006 12:54

RAID 5 onboard has very poor write performance.

RAID 0 I would only recommended for a scratch disk (adobe premiere/photoshop/autocad)

easypanic 11th January 2006 13:10

Mmm, so this silicon chipset sucks? :)

jmke 11th January 2006 13:25

well.. RAID 5 becomes interesting when you have a dedicated raid card with its own memory (check storage review from BR from Adaptec)

easypanic 11th January 2006 17:03

MMM, no spare pci slot :/

the maniak 11th January 2006 23:37

If I were u then I would forget about raid, just use the 3*250 gb as storage

jmke 12th January 2006 00:04

/me would go for 250gb RAID 1, but that's just because I value my data:)

easypanic 18th January 2006 20:31

Ok, I turned the "2x250GB RAID 0" into a "2x250GB RAID 1" :).

Zero difference in performance :D.

jmke 18th January 2006 20:35

read speed will be up, write speed will be down

easypanic 18th January 2006 20:43

I can live with that :).

As long as my data is secure :)


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