3 x 250GB SATA2 Hard Drives, RAID Advice

norbie · 22 Dec 2006 at 00:01

So I have 3 x 250GB SATA2 Hard Drives (Western Digital Raid Editions) for my new build.

What shall I do with them? I was going to go for RAID 5 but not sure now. I want to keep my data safe so I don't want to use RAID 0 for instance.

I have the Asus P5B Deluxe board so I can use RAID 0,1,5,10 I think.

Any RAID experts suggest a system for me?

norbie · 22 Dec 2006 at 08:53

That's why I was thinking RAID 5 as it uses 3 drives to make 500GB overall, and you can't lose your data I think.

norbie · 22 Dec 2006 at 08:55

Oops just seen above post.

I might go with RAID 0 then with 2 drives, and possibly get another to have 2 sets of RAID 0. I'm just worried about losing data. Is there any advantage from having a RAID array rather than using the drives separately within Windows?

norbie · 23 Dec 2006 at 18:34

Hmm I might go for a RAID 0 of 2 disks, then keep the other one (and another 250gb I have which is only SATA1 as backups/storage for important files.