Recommended RAID Config - 5 Disk

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Hi Guys,

I have 5 x 500GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA2 HDDs connected to an LSI Hardware RAID controller (8 Port)

My PC will be used mainly for games, but also storing MP3s and videos which I would like to be quite secure / redundant. What RAID config would you recommend?

I considered RAID 5 but worry that the write speed might not be very good, and I also considered RAID10 but would not be able to use one of the disks – it would have to be standalone as it would use 4 disks.

Also considered a 3 disk stripe and a 2 disk mirror, but 1.5TB seems a lot of space to risk on RAID0!

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Hiya,

This is the model :-

LSI MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP (PCI-E x4)

I can backup anything really critical to another machine via gigabit so i guess data redundancy is not 'that' important. I supposed if all i really do is play games then i should go for maximum performance? I did consider a 5 disk stripe, but i was paranoid that the chance of a disk dying was pretty high, and all being the same brand would not help either!!

Cheers

PS - on a side note, i have just been on your website and your pictures are quite fantastic. I think i will order some for my wife. Do you do larger size prints (for framing and going on my front room wall) ?
 
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Hi,

I will be using Windows Vista x64 Home Premium

I am waiting for 3 of my disks to be RMA'd back to me (should arrive Monday)

In the meantime i tried a 2 disk stripe and the performance was fantastic, it was quicker than nearly every onboard RAID stripe i had seen in the benchmark part of this forum

I really hope the RAID5 performance will be good !
 
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