MB Raid or Raid card? pls help

[Zarf]

Only 80GB? go RAID10 then for a 2TB array. Simple, fast, safe and you've no hassle with booting from GPT to worry about.

The only real downside to RAID10 is its cost per GB in disks.

 

[miniyazz]

bad point over raid 10 from the listed site


Disadvantages
Not a "True" RAID because it is NOT fault-tolerant

The failure of just one drive will result in all data in an array being lost

Should never be used in mission critical environments

That quote was for RAID 0, not RAID 10:

"Very expensive / High overhead

All drives must move in parallel to proper track lowering sustained performance

Very limited scalability at a very high inherent cost"


Having learnt somewhat more about RAID in the last couple of days, my suggestion would be to go for RAID10 because it appears it is somewhat more reliable than RAID01 (it can support more than one drive loss and keep operating almost normally, as long as no mirror loses all its drives) and doesn't have the same initial outlet that RAID 5 does (expensive RAID controller). And it seems you don't have large quantities to backup so having the extra space would seem to not currently be a problem.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have any thoughts on what the performance hit would be using RAID 5/6 on a Q6600 @ 3.45 with 4x1.5tb drives using ICH10R integrated controller? Bearing in mind it would mostly be used for reads.
Also, if my motherboard were then to die, would the array continue to function on a different motherboard with the same controller?

 

[daz87uk]

yeah my music collection is tiny but other stuff amounts to about 1TB so I need to increase size and safety so raid 10 it is....