RAID refresher course needed please.

jigger · 23 May 2008 at 17:02

It's been a long time since i last used a RAID Array.

Im thinking of a three drive setup but im unsure weather to stripe two drives and use the other for backup or have all three striped with parity. So im looking for some help as i cant remember the the good and bad points between the two or what size stripe to use, it's for a glorified desktop system so the file swaps will be allshorts of sizes.

Cheer's
jigger.

jigger · 23 May 2008 at 18:21

Yeh, i like to have things well coverd in regards to backing up too, the drives are Samsung Sata2 T166 500gig's.

Just had a look at my motherboard and it has the option for a RIAD 5 array, which i think is striped with the parity split between the drives, anyone using RAID 5 ?