setting up raid

[dark strike1]

Dark strike RAID10 and RAID0+1 are different things . In RAID0+1 a single drive fail will cause it to becomes a raid0 array until rebuilt with a new working drive.

You also get raid50 (otherwise known as raid0+3) come on people do your research!!!

I never mentions Raid 0+1??? I mentioned Raid 1+0, and was just saying that IT people don't usually use the term "Raid ten" usually use the term "Raid one plus zero." Yes, both are almost the same but reversed.

 

[saltynay]

I am no It professional but I am an experienced techy and fiddled with quite a few arrays in my time through independent research. If they laugh at you slap them
Not the most reliable site but a nice short rundown of the differences
Nested RAID levels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ps I appologise I skim read

 

[dark strike1]

Its cool lol.

But I would do Raid 5, more HDD space, and same read speed as Raid 1+0.

If you wanted to do Raid 1+0, you could, but the performance increase in games and software wouldn't jump at all. The only thing you would notice is installation and download writing will be faster.

 

[insanepsycho]

and its not like i said raid ten how do u know that i dont mean raid one zero when i write raid 10

but srsly lets say i download a lot would raid 10 be better or raid 5 and where would raid 01 fit if i had something that would do it

 

[kmote]

Dark strike RAID10 and RAID0+1 are different things . In RAID0+1 a single drive fail will cause it to becomes a raid0 array until rebuilt with a new working drive.

You also get raid50 (otherwise known as raid0+3) come on people do your research!!!

I believe it is sometimes called 53 not 50

EDIT: wow I'm slow at typing insanepsycho: your controller will probably only support either RAID 10 or RAID 01 not both. If you download a lot RAID 5 would be better because it has better storage efficiency than 10.

 

[insanepsycho]

ok so i should def go with raid 5 then... but please someone there has to be a way that i can not lose data and have to go thru and reinstall everything

 

[kmote]

RAID 5 you won't have to because you can set up the three disks in the RAID and have your seperate boot drive, I would recommend that.

 

[insanepsycho]

u bring up a good point if i did that id only need three disks and a boot drive
would i be able to image my boot drive over to the raid 5 disks and then add another disk to the array(aka the original boot disk)?
nvm i dont think that would work

 

[insanepsycho]

can anyone link me an article with the exacte performance dif between raid 5 and raid 10

 

[saltynay]

here you go